Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was one of the most important African American
leaders of the nineteenth century. He lived his first twenty years as a slave
and, subsequently, nearly nine years as a fugitive slave. From the 1840s to his
death in 1895, he became famous as an abolitionist, reformer, editor, orator,
and author of three autobiographies.
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Source: David W. Blight, ed. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, p. xii.