Fredrick Douglass

 == Frederick Douglass Born as a slave in 1818 and died in 1895 as one of Americas most influential African-American social reformers. A staunch abolitionist and writer he led several newspapers and similar organisations throughout his life. After he escaped from slavery 1838, he gained fame for his great orator’s skills, and became a national leader of the abolitionist leader in New York, Maryland. During these early years, abolitionist thought him as a counter-example of slaveholders argument that African-American slaves were to intellectually disabled to exists as true citizens.

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 During and after the civil war he worked closely with Abraham Lincoln, a man Douglass first criticised freely, but later felt more and more respect towards. Douglass was also one of the advisors that proposed to integrate the North army with African-Americans, against the Confederates in the Civil war 1860’s, both to help the North to win over the Confederates and to give African-Americans more rights.



 Some of the newspaper organisations he founded were; The North Star (after 1845), an abolitions paper based in NY. The New National Era (1870), in which he tried to hold the US’s new commitment of equality. He held several public offices and is the first nominated African-American vice-president of the US, by Victoria Woodhull member of Equal Rights Party and a leader of women suffrage.

His most famous works are his auto-biographies, the  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave   , My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass . In which he described his life as a slave and promotion of African-rights.



 During Reconstruction Period Douglass worked friskily trying to cement African-American rights in the South during the reconstruction era, as a news-editor and as an emissary from the north and as a orator, giving many speeches. Notable achievements in the Reconstruction period were;



 Trying to convince Andrew Johnson (a democrat president, elected after the assassination of Lincoln) to support black suffrage. A meeting which Andrew disliked, but still, 4 years after, the 15th amendment was signed.



