Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a renowned African American writer and social reformer. He escaped from slavery as a young man, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and was a figurehead of U.S. abolitionist movements.
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In this memoir, Frederick Douglass chronicles life as an enslaved boy in the American South, his eventual escape, and his new beginnings as a free man and abolitionist.
Note: This historical memoir may include outdated and offensive language.
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This is a speech by Frederick Douglass given on Monday, July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. The oration was published as a pamphlet the same year. Annotations were provided by the Wikisource community.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an African American writer and social reformer known for his rousing antislavery speeches. His bestselling autobiography detailed his harrowing childhood as an enslaved young man in Maryland. Once he escaped, Douglass traveled and led abolitionist movements in Massachusetts and New York.
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