Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1817 or 1818, and died February 20, 1895 in Washington DC, is an American abolitionist, publisher, and public speaker. Born a slave, he succeeded in learning and escaping. An eloquent communicator, he became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and wrote his autobiography: The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself. Celebrity puts his illegal freedom in the non-slavery states of the North in danger, and he takes refuge in Europe, where his new friends get his manumission, and eventually funding him to found The North Star on his return.
He distanced himself from his early collaborators with the American Anti-Slavery Society, and his mentor William Lloyd Garrison, after his positive opinion on the value of the United States Constitution, to rally to more conservative abolitionists, Whose action was centered on politics rather than essentially on a moral reform of public opinion. His association with Gerrit Smith, a major contributor to the "Liberty Party" (United States, 1840), founded by James Birney, is concretized by the merger of their respective newspapers.
Douglass was the seventh man in what historians called the secret group of six, transmitting money and recruiting acolytes to Captain John Brown, 2 for a plot with the truly illusory purpose of a generalized insurgent movement Against slavery. After the outbreak of the American Civil War, Douglass was among the first to suggest to the federal government to employ troops formed of black men. A popular lecturer from 1866, Douglass held various administrative functions in the government between 1871 and 1895.
Frederick Douglass firmly believed in the equality of all, including the descendants of Africans, women, natives, immigrants, and of course the Scottish, Irish and other American Anglo-Saxons. Some commentators and historians have said of Douglass that he has fallen into self-promotion, but if he has been able to promote a separate agenda for his ethnic group, for example in schools or because of an ephemeral newspaper Washington in 1869, his personal qualities are undeniable for all: courage, perseverance, intelligence, and resilience.
Hometown:
Tuckahoe, Maryland
Date of Death:
February 20, 1895
Place of Death:
Washington, D.C.
