Person
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Overview
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
Also known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, Frederick Augustus Washington Baly, Fred Bailey
Key facts
- journalist, diplomat, writer, editor
- Washington, D.C. Recorder of Deeds, ambassador, United States Marshals Service
- United States
- February 1817, February 1818, February 14, 1818
- February 20, 1895, 1895
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