![]() ![]() ![]() In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. ![]() By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. ![]() He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary…a great American biography" ( The New Yorker ) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. ![]()
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