Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

ISBN-10: 1988357241
ISBN-13: 9781988357249
Series: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Published: 2016-08-29
Publisher: Diamond Publishers
Author: Frederick Douglass

Description

Frederick Douglass (February 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 from 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.