African American Social Reformer Frederick Douglas

Description

Frederick Douglass
(born
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
;
c.
February 1818
– February 20, 1895
) was an African-American
social reformer, abolitionist, orator
, writer, and statesman
. After escaping from slavery
in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist
movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory
and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.
Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
Photo  on "Photo Supreme Matte paper" 8-1/2" X 11" includes scanned COPY of his autograph card below photo from my collection.
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