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Frederick Douglass


Born
in Talbot County, Maryland, The United States
February 14, 1818

Died
February 20, 1895

Genre
Biography, Civil Rights

Influences
Robert Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benja ...more


Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born a slave in the state of Maryland in 1818. After his escape from slavery, Douglass became a renowned abolitionist, editor and feminist. Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. Douglass traveled widely, and often perilously, to lecture against slavery.

His first of three autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, was published in 1845. In 1847 he moved to Rochester, New York, and started working with fellow abolitionist Martin R. Delany to publish a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, North Star. Douglass was the only man to speak in favor of Elizabeth C ...more

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Narrative of the Life of Fr...
4.14 avg rating — 138,647 ratings — published 1845 — 3698 editions
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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4.38 avg rating — 12,439 ratings — published 1855 — 1076 editions
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Life and Times of Frederick...
4.35 avg rating — 2,039 ratings — published 1881 — 181 editions
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What to the Slave is the Fo...
4.71 avg rating — 1,030 ratings — published 1852 — 19 editions
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Autobiographies: Narrative ...
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The Heroic Slave
3.79 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1853 — 55 editions
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Collected Articles of Frede...
4.24 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1994 — 33 editions
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Frederick Douglass: The Mos...
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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass
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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass
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