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Douglass, Frederick
Subject
History
Place
Northern America
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United States of America
DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x
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(b. near Easton, Md., ca. February 1817; d. Washington, D.C., 20 February 1895) Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and sired by his own master, he escaped from slavery in Baltimore in 1838 and took the name Douglass in New Bedford, Mass. He gave his first antislavery speech at Nantucket in 1841, emerged as the best-known black abolitionist after writing a brief account of his slavery years in 1845, and edited the Rochester, N.Y., North Star (1847–63). He used his influence to recruit Negro troops in the C ivil W ar . He held several senior posts in Washington, D.C., before becoming US consul general to Haiti (1889–91). ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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