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...
wherein Douglass affirms his humanity and selfhood.;A review of slavery, abolitionism and the early major events in his life provides a basis for analyzing the effects of the cultural, political, intellectual and social climate of nineteenth-century America, which fosters the evolution of the sla...