Frederick Douglass
(1818-1895)
American abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. – February 20, 1895) was an 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, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey 14 February 1818 Talbot County, Maryland
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20 February 1895 (aged 77) Washington, D.C.
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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