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Frederick Douglass

The Abolitionist Prophet

Black Church Oratory, journalism, abolitionist politics, the moral case against America
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ATK 80
DEF 85
SPR 88
SPD 75
INT 99
Rank Abolitionist / Statesman / Editor / AME Zion lay leader
Domain Oratory, journalism, abolitionist politics, the moral case against America
Alignment Holy / Abolitionist
Weakness His break with William Lloyd Garrison and his accommodation with Lincoln during the war drew criticism from more radical abolitionists
Key Act Born enslaved in Maryland ~1818. Taught himself to read in violation of state law. Escaped to freedom in 1838. Published *Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave* (1845). Edited *The North Star*. Recruited Black troops for the Union Army (including two of his sons). Held federal office during Reconstruction. Delivered "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" -- one of the great American speeches -- in 1852
Source Douglass, *Narrative* (1845); *My Bondage and My Freedom* (1855); *Life and Times* (1881)

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” — Douglass, July 5, 1852


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