![]() ![]() After the Civil War, Douglass remained an active campaigner against slavery and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He described his experiences as a slave in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became a bestseller, and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.Douglass wrote several autobiographies. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves 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, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. ![]() Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. ![]()
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