1. Frederick Douglass

2. (Born Frederick Augustus
Washington Bailey, February 1818-
February 20,1895). Was an
American social reformer, orator,
writer and statesman.
Frederick Douglass

3. After escaping from slavery, he
became a Leader of the Abolitionist
Movement, gaining note for his
dazzling Oratory and Incisive
Antislavery Writing. Many northerners
also that such a great orator had been a
slave.
Frederick Douglass

4.  Douglass wrote several
autobiographies, eloquently
describing his experiences in slavery
in his 1845 autobiography, narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave, which became
influential in its support for
abolition.
 Frederick Douglass

5. Douglass remained active in the united
states’ struggle to reach its potential as a land
of the free” Douglass actively supported
women’s suffrage. Without his approval, he
became the first African-American
nominated for vice president of the united
states as the running mate of Victoria
Woodhull on the impracticable and small
equal rights party ticket.
Frederick Douglass

6.  Douglass held multiple public offices.
Douglass was a firm believer in the
equality of all people, whether black,
female, Narrative American, or recent
immigrant, famously quoted as saying, “
I would unite with anybody to do right
and with nobody to do wrong.

7.  Douglass’ friends and mentors feared that the
publicity would draw the attention of his ex-
owner, Hugh Auld, who might try to get his
“property” black. They encouraged Douglass
to tour Ireland, as many former slaves had
done. In 1848, Douglass was the only African-
American to attend the first women’s right
convention. Douglass stood and spoke
eloquently in favor, He said that he could not
accept the right to vote as a black man if
women could not also claim that right.
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 Frederick Douglass

8.  Douglass Quickly became a respected member of
the community in New Bedford. However, he was
disappointed to find that racism was prevalent in
the North as well as in the South. Throughout his
life, he would travel all over the united states on
speaking engagements, becoming a famous and
sought after orator. “No man can put a chain about
the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding
the other end fastened about his own neck.”
 - Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

9.  Douglass continued to lecture widely and
became sympathetic to other reformist
causes of the day, including the temperance,
peace, and feminist movements. By the
1850s and 1860s, he increasingly came to
doubt that slavery could be ended by
peaceful means. He became friends with the
militant abolitionist john brown, in his ill-
fated 1859 militant campaign slavery at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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 Frederick Douglass