Frederick Douglass 01/01/1818 29 Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. February 1818 – 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 abolit...
Frederick Douglass was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist. Douglass was born enslaved on a plantation in Maryland, ultimately escaping to New York City in 1838. He is best known for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by ...