government’s request to set up a naval station there.ĭouglass chose his surname. consul to Haiti, he supported Haiti’s decision to deny the U.S. He collaborated with John Brown, met with Lincoln three times, toured Egypt, attended numerous women’s rights conventions, spoke out against the rise of lynching, and was a political friend of Ulysses Grant. He published two additional autobiographies- My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times-and a novella, The Heroic Slave. What else do you wish people knew?ĭouglass published his most famous autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, in 1845 Garrison was his publisher. Most people know the story of Douglass’s daring escape from slavery and his work with William Lloyd Garrison. When you study Douglass, you read truly superb writing. I’ve had a long fascination with nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and Douglass spanned that period and addressed the big issues of the time: slavery, race, women’s rights, and immigration.
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