During the 1870's and 1880's he received a succession of minor Federal appointments, the most important of which were the posts of United States Marshal for the District of Columbia and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti. He agitated tirelessly on behalf of equal rights for blacks (and, with less determination, for women) and became a stalwart supporter of the Republican Party, many of whose leaders he counted among his friends. In the North, Douglass became an influential abolitionist spokesman, an eloquent orator and publicist who emerged as the most famous black leader of his day. Displaying from a young age unusual intelligence, driving ambition and an abiding detestation of slavery, he succeeded in escaping from bondage in 1838 by borrowing the identification papers of a free black sailor, taking a train from Baltimore to Wilmington, Del., and proceeding by boat to Philadelphia. $35.įREDERICK DOUGLASS was born a slave in 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. AUTOBIOGRAPHIESNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.My Bondage and My Freedom.Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.By Frederick Douglass.Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Illustrated.
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