Short biography frederick douglass

“Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life”

Frederick Douglass, née Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Maryland.

A runaway slave, he became an abolitionist and civil rights leader, social reformer and eventually one of the most influential African American intellectuals of the times. Douglass made history as the first African American to hold a government position and to receive a vote for nomination as president of the United States at the Republican National Convention of His vision was finally realized when Barack Obama became the first African American president of the United States on November

Douglass wrote three autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in , My Bondage and My Freedom in and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in

Frederick Douglass witnessed all the horrors and cruelties of slavery. From the time he was born he was separate