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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Portrait of African-American Social Reformer Frederick Douglass - 1874
Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-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 lacked 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.
Know more about him in Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
Know more about him in Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia
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