Facts about Frederick Douglass
In 1845, he published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave.
In 1877, Frederick Douglass purchased his final home in Washington D.C., on a hill overlooking the Anacostia River.
Grant's vigor in disrupting the Klan made him unpopular among many whites, but Frederick Douglass praised him.
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, newspaper publisher, orator, author, statesman, and reformer.
In 1851, Douglass merged the North Star with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper to form Frederick Douglass' Paper, which was published until 1860.
Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke, in his adopted hometown of Washington D.C..
Douglass later became the publisher of a series of newspapers: The North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass' Paper, Douglass' Monthly, and New National Era.
In 1845, he published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave.
Douglass' most well-known work is his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, which was published in 1845.
Whenever President Lincoln saw him, he would say, "Here is my friend, Frederick Douglass."
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, near Hillsborough, 12 miles from Easton.
An abolitionist, writer and orator Frederick Douglass was the most important black American leader of the nineteenth century. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he was the son of a slave woman and, probably, her white master.