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Civil Rights · 1818–1895

Frederick Douglass

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass taught himself to read and escaped north in 1838 to become the most powerful abolitionist orator of the nineteenth century. He published three autobiographies, edited the antislavery newspaper The North Star, and advised presidents from Lincoln to Harrison. Douglass argued forcefully for women's suffrage, immigrant rights, and Black political participation, and his speeches remain foundational texts of American democracy.

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