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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in February 1818.

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Frederick Douglass defined slavery as "a permeating system of oppression and abuse that is forced upon people of color, in such a way that they cannot fully understand the atrocity or determine ways to overcome it."

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He published three autobiographies, spent years writing and editing an influential abolitionist newspaper, broke barriers for African Americans in government service, served as an international spokesman and statesman, and helped combat racial prejudice during the Reconstruction Era.

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He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.

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After finding employment as a laborer, Douglass began to attend abolitionist meetings and speak about his experiences in slavery. He soon got really popular as an orator, landing a job as an agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. The job took him on speaking tours across the North and Midwest.

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Something I recently learned was, he published books. Some of his most famous books are "My Bondage and My Freedom", "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", and "Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies."

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He attended the first Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, in 1841-1847  he speaks at an an abolitionist meeting in Massachusetts and is employed as a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society.

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he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to enslaves' arguments that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.

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Barely a year after he escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass became a father for the first time. In Bed-ford, Massachusetts, Douglass and his wife welcomed a daughter named Rosetta. It had taken years of struggle for Douglass to reach this moment. But he finally got what he dreamed for in 1839.

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Returning from a women's suffrage meeting on 20 February 1895, Frederick Douglass died at his Anacostia home in Washington D.C. His death was reported on a global scale, and many British newspapers printed long obituaries to the most famous African American to visit her shore.