num_pages: 512
description: Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818- February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.
language: English
title: Life & Times of Frederick Douglas
titlecomplete: Life & Times of Frederick Douglas
genres: Classics, Autobiography, History, Race, American History, African American, Civil War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1603
series: The Frederick Douglass Papers Series, The Autobiographies
publisher: Gramercy/Random House (Avenel, NJ)