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Frederick Douglass, about 1850:
One of the nation's most respected anti-slavery advocates, Frederick Douglass called for immediate emancipation and fought slavery with the power of the written and spoken word.
In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he used his life story as a political tool directed at the conscience of white America. Emphasizing classic American values such as individualism, freedom, and the self-made man, Douglass held a mirror to America and asked the public to speak out against slavery. |