Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are […]
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, journalist, orator and diplomat. He was born a slave in 1818 in Maryland, then escaped to the north where he fought against slavery, including offering refuge to hundreds of fugitive slaves. He rose to fame with the publication of his memoir, "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself," in 1845. In 1948, the year before he died in Washington D.C., he attended the Women's Rights Convention in New York, which marked the start of the women's movement in the U.S.