Author:Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)

Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia," Douglass was among the most prominent African Americans of his time and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history. Error creating thumbnail: one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

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Frederick Douglass

Works

• An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867)
• The Color Line (1881)
• The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
• The Heroic Slave
• My Escape from Slavery (1881) Error creating thumbnail:
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) Error creating thumbnail:
• Reconstruction (1866)
• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)

Works about Frederick Douglass

• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass (poem)
• “Douglass, Frederick,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1892.
• Charles W. Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass (biography; 1899)
• “Douglass, Frederick” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

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