
Biden's Inauguration: Frederick Douglass Dream
Tasos Katopodis via Getty Former slave Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest American intellectuals to ever live, and he..
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
Tasos Katopodis via Getty Former slave Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest American intellectuals to ever live, and he..