what is frederick douglass ?

Answer 1

Frederick Douglass (February 14[1], 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 of African American history during his time, and one of the most influential lecturers and authors in American history.

Autobiography
Douglass' most well-known work is his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which was published in 1845. Critics frequently attacked the book as inauthentic, not believing that a black man could possibly have produced so eloquent a piece of literature. The book was an immediate bestseller and received overwhelmingly positive critical reviews. Within three years of its publication, it had been reprinted nine times with 11,000 copies circulating in the United States; it was also translated into the French and Dutch languages.

The book's success had an unfortunate side effect: his friends and mentors feared that the publicity would draw the attention of his ex-owner, Hugh Auld, who could try to get his "property" back. They encouraged him to go on a tour in Ireland, as many other ex-slaves had done in the past. He set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool on August 16, 1845, and arrived in Ireland when the Irish famine was just beginning.

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Answer 2

Fredrick Douglass was both a former slave and a major abolistinist activist during the mid 1850's. He was the son of a woman slave and a white slave owner. In his work the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass details his early life as a slave and shows how the peculiar institution (slavery) really worked.

After escaping to the north, Douglass attended various abolistinist meetings, but never was a speaker himself. At a American Anti-Slavery Society meeting on August 9, 1841, Douglass met William Lloyd Garrison, a major abolistinist during the time and the founder of newspapers like The Liberator. Garrison convinced Douglass to give a speech and three days later Douglass presented his story, which received support from everyone attending. Douglass went on to be the most significant black abolistinist of all time, promoting his ideas of Universal Reformism (oppression somewhere is oppression everywhere) through his newspaper the North Star.

Answer 3

IT is a famous tree named for a famous person.

http://www.bartlesvilleparks.com/Pages/historic_whiteoak.html

If you are actually asking about the person, then Fredrick Douglass was an exslave, and abolitionist, a brilliant speaker, and a tireless worker for not just black but all human rights.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Douglass

Answer 4

he is a former slave who wrote up from slavery (a book)
a long time ago like in the 1800s i think
i'm no expert. he was an early black intellectual.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglas

Answer 6

dont you mean who?