February 1818 - February 20, 1895 (Age: 77)
An African-American social reformer, writer and statesmen. He escaped from slavery and became a leader of an abolitionist movement and became the most famous black abolitionist. He was a living counter-example to arguments made by slaveholders saying that slaves didn't have the intellectual capacity to function as an independent. He wrote an autobiography, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which played a big role in abolition. Even after the Civil War he was active in the U.S. and was a supporter of women's suffrage. He was nominated for Vice President, which he didn't give consent to. He died of a heart attack at his home.
An African-American social reformer, writer and statesmen. He escaped from slavery and became a leader of an abolitionist movement and became the most famous black abolitionist. He was a living counter-example to arguments made by slaveholders saying that slaves didn't have the intellectual capacity to function as an independent. He wrote an autobiography, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which played a big role in abolition. Even after the Civil War he was active in the U.S. and was a supporter of women's suffrage. He was nominated for Vice President, which he didn't give consent to. He died of a heart attack at his home.