![]() ![]() During the Civil War, he advocated for the use of African American soldiers in the Union Army and would later become a recruiter for the United States Colored Troops. Anthony, this convention gave birth to the women’s movement in the United States. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. In 1848 he was one of a few men to attend the Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. However, Douglass’s fight for reform extended beyond the fight for abolition. He fought throughout most of his career for the abolition of slavery and worked with notable abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith. He rose to fame with the 1845 publication of his first book The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself. Born a slave, Douglass escaped to freedom in his early twenties. Director of Interpretation, Collections and Educationįrederick Douglass, an icon of American history, was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818. ![]()
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