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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...
Black Prophetic Fire, published in 2014 by Beacon Press, is a book by Cornel West in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf, containing six conversations discussing the lives and legacies of figures in the Black prophetic tradition: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells.
Douglass passed in 1895, but his life and work played a significant role in shaping the discourse on slavery, freedom and civil rights in the United States. Honor his legacy with 45 Frederick ...
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington 4.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass comprises eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists : a preface by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter by Wendell Phillips , both arguing for the veracity of the account and the ...
Douglass forced the nation to come face to face with the “immeasurable distance” that separated free whites and enslaved Black people 76 years after the country’s independence, nearly 11 ...
In 2014, a two-day symposium called "Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition" took place at Purdue University in Indiana where many historians and literary critics gathered to discuss their thoughts on Douglass's fictitious slave narrative, The Heroic Slave. Ideas surrounding African American fiction, the ...