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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Joseph Dennie, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Elias Boudinot, Mirabeau B. Lamar, William W. Chapman, John McLean, Samuel Brannan, Matt Taibbi, John Yarmuth, John Patrick Looney, Louis E. Martin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Abraham Cahan, Walter Wellman, William Monroe Trotter, Dave Price, Frederick Marriott, Mary Ann Shadd, Benjamin Day, Benjamin Franklin Perry, Agapius Honcharenko, George Wilbur Peck, Elihu Embree, Melville Elijah Stone, Thomas J. Dryer, William Byers, Asahel Bush, Abner Cole, Miles Benjamin McSweeney, Stilson Hutchins, Walter Newman Haldeman, Eber D. Howe, Louis Black, Erastus Hussey, Anson Herrick, James H. Gildea, Alicia Patterson, James Lawrence Getz, William H. P. Denny, Tim Giago, George Jones, Leslie Johnson. Excerpt: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave. Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his life as a slave, and his struggles to be free. His first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, was published in 1845 and was his best-known work, influential in gaining support for abolition. He wrote two more autobiographies, with his last, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and covering events through and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, Douglass remained act...
