Contributor(s): Author: Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c.
Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave..
He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders\' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.
After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
February 1818- February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
Contributor(s): Author: Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c
