6/1/2023 0 Comments An american slave![]() ![]() ![]() ĭouglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). ![]() It was in response to this disbelief that Douglass wrote his first autobiography. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been enslaved. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to enslavers' arguments that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. ![]()
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