Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838. He became a powerful and prominent figure in the abolitionist ...

In his 1845 memoir, A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, the famed abolitionist wrote that, “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record ...

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Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...