Fredrick Douglass (1817-1895) was an African American writer and anti-slavery orator whose 1845 narrative of his life became an important abolitionist text.
Fredrick Douglass (1817-1895) fue un escritor y orador afroamericano contra la esclavitud, cuya narrativa de su vida publicada en 1845 se convirtió en un importante texto abolicionista.
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| Back | 1817 95 Black American writer Became one of the most elequent anti-slavery orators of his day and in 1845 published the narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818[4] – February 20, 1895[5]) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory[6] and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.[7][8] Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.[9] |
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