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.
| Author: Frederick Douglas |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Dec 28, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 108 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1494808935 |
| ISBN-13: 9781494808938 |