Frederick Douglass
February 14, 1818 | birth_place = Cordova, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | resting_place = Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York, U.S. | occupation = | party = Republican | spouse = |}} | relatives = Douglass family | signature = Frederick Douglass signature.svg | caption = Douglass in 1879 }} Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 In ''Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom'', p. 9, David W. Blight writes that "a handwritten inventory of slaves, kept by his owner at birth, Aaron Anthony, recorded 'Frederick Augustus, son of Harriet, Feby. 1818.'" This fact was originally revealed in 1980 by Dickson J. Preston in ''Young Frederick Douglass'', p. 36. Douglass celebrated his birthday on February 14, a date now observed as Douglass Day.}} – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York and gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to claims by supporters of slavery that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography.
Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his ''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'' (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' (1855). Following the Civil War, Douglass was an active campaigner for the rights of freed slaves and wrote his last autobiography, ''Life and Times of Frederick Douglass''. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, the book covers his life up to those dates. Douglass also actively supported women's suffrage, and he held several public offices. Without his knowledge or consent, Douglass became the first African American nominated for vice president of the United States, as the running mate of Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party ticket.
Douglass believed in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides, as well as, after breaking with William Lloyd Garrison, in the anti-slavery interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto "No Union with Slaveholders", criticized Douglass's willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, he replied: "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." Provided by Wikipedia
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass : excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Book Club in a bag : Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave [12 books] by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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My bondage and my freedom by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Great speeches by Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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My bondage and my freedom by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Frederick Douglass on women's rights by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Frederick Douglass : selected speeches and writings by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999
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The Frederick Douglass papers. Series one, Speeches, debates, and interviews by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Life and times of Frederick Douglass: his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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In the words of Frederick Douglass : quotations from liberty's champion by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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My escape from slavery by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Journalism and other writings by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass : an American slave by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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