Title: Frederick Douglass
Description: This biography of Douglass also includes some detailed background on contemporary issues and events and how they influenced Douglass' rise to prominence: the roots of antislavery agitation, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Underground Railroad, the American Colonisation Society, the conflict in Kansas for free soil, the John Brown raid, the Civil War, the enlistment of Colored Troops, and Reconstruction.
Subjects: African Americans, Biography, African American abolitionists, African American orators, Abolitionists, Slaves, Fugitive slaves, Free African Americans, Social conditions, Antislavery movements, Slavery, History
Places: Maryland, United States
People: Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Time periods: 19th century