Search results
On July 5, 1852 approximately 3.5 million African Americans were enslaved — roughly 14% of the total population of the United States. That was the state of the nation when Frederick Douglass was asked to deliver a keynote address at an Independence Day celebration. He accepted and, on a day white Americans celebrated their independence and freedom from the oppression of the British crown ...
Jun 13, 2012 · Frederick Douglass (c. 1817–1895) is a central figure in U.S. and African American history. [] He was born into slavery circa 1817; his mother was an enslaved black woman, while his father was reputed to be his white master.
United States official and diplomat Frederick Douglass was one of the most prominent human rights leaders of the 1800s. His oratorical and literary brilliance propelled him to the forefront of the abolition movement in the United States, and his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself" (1845), which links the quest for freedom to the ...
Frederick Douglass, egentlig Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (født 17. februar 1818, død 20. februar 1895) var en afroamerikansk borgerrettighedsaktivist, forfatter, kronikør, akademiker og statsmand fra delstaten Maryland. Han blev født som slave, men flygtede og blev senere en fri mand.
Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved person in February 1818. When he was about eight, his owner sent him to work in Baltimore, Maryland.Although most people didn’t want enslaved people to learn to read, the wife of the man Douglass worked for taught him anyway.
By Dr. Noelle Trent Director of Interpretation, Collections and Education Frederick Douglass, an icon of American history, was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818. Born a slave, Douglass escaped to freedom in his early twenties. He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave ...
"The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.
