Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

ISBN-10: 1975853237
ISBN-13: 9781975853235
Series: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Pages: 144
Language: English
Published: 2017-08-27
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: Frederick Douglass

Description

Frederick Douglass born Frederick Augustus Washington BaileyFebruary 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an African-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 dazzling oratory 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. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.