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Quotations
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Frederick Douglass Quotes
4,282 words, approx. 14 pages
Frederick Douglass (c. 1818 – 20 February 1895 ) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer; born a slave as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,...


Biography

Name: Frederick Douglass
Birth Date: c. 1817
Death Date: February 20, 1895
Place of Birth: Maryland, United States
Place of Death: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: abolitionist, publisher, politician

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Biography of Frederick Douglass
908 words, approx. 3 pages
As a journalist, Frederick Douglass is mainly remembered for establishing the North Star, one of the most highly acclaimed abolitionist newspapers. He also founded and edited Douglass' Monthly, one of the few abolitionist magazines. Frederick Augustus...
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Biography of Frederick Douglass
799 words, approx. 3 pages
The foremost African American abolitionist in antebellum America, Frederick Douglass (ca. 1817-1895) was the first African American leader of national stature in United States history. Frederick Douglass was born, as can best be determined, in February...
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Biography of Frederick Douglass
173 words, approx. 1 pages
Frederick Douglass (1817"-20 February 1895), reformer and journalist, was born to a black slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Upon his escape from slavery in 1838, he adopted the last name of Douglass. He married a free black woman and settled in New Bedford,...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Douglass, Frederick Summary
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(b. ca. February, 1818; d. February 20, 1895) Former slave, political leader, and civil rights advocate. Frederick Douglass, the foremost African-American political leader of the nineteenth century, was a lifelong advocate of freedom and civil rights...
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Douglass, Frederick Summary
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Born c. February 1817Easton, Maryland Died February 20, 1895Washington, D.C. Writer and activist Frederick Douglass. . "Rebellion has been subdued, slavery...
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Frederick Douglass Summary
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Frederick Douglass Born 1817 Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 Washington, D.C. Escaped slave, abolitionist, orator, and author Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery at the age of seventeen to become one of the most effective abolitionists and most...
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Frederick Douglass Summary
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Born February 1818? Tolbert County, Maryland Died February 20, 1895 Washington, D.C. Abolitionist, writer, and speaker Escaped from slavery to become one of the most prominent activists in the antislavery...
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Frederick Douglass Information
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Frederick Douglass (February, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass was one of the most prominent figures in...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Tears of Frederick Douglass
02/22/1993: 845 words, approx. 3 pages
Maya Angelou always makes me cry. She also makes me laugh, of course, and sing and think and feel. But the one certainty is that her every performance - be it at lecture hall, poetry reading, dinner table or presidential inaugural - will at...
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The Boston Globe
Mugging Frederick Douglass
07/04/2003: 845 words, approx. 3 pages
IN HIS DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS OF BLACK PROGRESS, CLARENCE THOMAS SPEEDS AWAY, SPITTING AT HIS VICTIMS AND SPEWING QUOTATIONS THAT STUN THE ONLOOKERS AS MUCH AS THE ORIGINAL ATTACK. NO OTHER THUG COMMITS BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME IN THE NAME OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Last year, Thomas, the...
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AP News
Capitol Hill honors Frederick Douglass
2/26/2007: 392 words, approx. 1 pages
Frederick Douglass is known for fiercely opposing slavery after running away from his Maryland owner, for championing equal rights and women's rights and for being a forceful speaker.But he spent much of his adult life as a journalist, first publishing a newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.,...
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The New York Observer
Events for October 3, 2007
10/2/2007: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
8:30 a.m. The Manhattan Institute will host conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of Allan Bloom's book, “The Closing of the American Mind” at the Princeton Club, 15 West 43rd Street. 9 a.m. Operation HOPE will open a new education and banking center in Harlem...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James Matlack
6,213 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Matlack assesses the symbolic value of Douglass's three autobiographies and notes an overall decline in the literary quality of his later works.
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Benjamin Quarles
4,963 words, approx. 17 pages
Quarles is regarded as a leading Douglass scholar among American historians. In the following essay, he describes Douglass's journalistic exploits as the publisher of an antislavery weekly newspaper in the late 1840s and 1850s.
Featured Essays
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Frederick Douglass: A Literary Vigilante
2,682 words, approx. 9 pages
A detailed essay analyzing the life of Frederick Douglass and its relationship to his writings.
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Essay Grade: 89%
Frederick Douglass
2,100 words, approx. 7 pages
Essay provides a description of the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass.
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Essay Grade: 95%
The Life of Frederick Douglass
1,579 words, approx. 5 pages
A decent biography with detailed information on Frederick Douglass and his life from birth to death.
 


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