Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
1818-1895

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Snapshot

  • Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

  • Born in Talbot County, Maryland and escaped slavery in Maryland

  • Well known for several written works that invoked changes in equal rights and helped design the country’s path forward

  • Wrote several autobiographies, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

  • First African American to be nominated for Vice President of the United States

  • His work served as an inspiration to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond

  • Douglass spent his life fighting, speaking, and reforming the American ideas of civil liberties and equality.

  • 1965 Douglass portrait was placed on an USPS Stamp

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

For more information: 

https://www.biography.com/activist/frederick-douglass

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass