Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey,  February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838. He became a famous leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.Gatewood, Willard B. Jr. 1981. "Frederick Douglass and the Building of a 'Wall of Anti-Slavery Fire,' 1845–1846. An Essay Review." The Florida Historical Quarterly 59(3):340–344. .

Douglass wrote three autobiographies about his time as an enslaved person. They are Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. 

Douglass spent several years in England and Ireland. During the Civil War, Douglass was the most famous black man in the country. He met Abraham Lincoln. From 1889 to 1891, he was United States minister resident (ambassador) to Haiti under President Benjamin Harris. He was an advocate for equal rights for African Americans.

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