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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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1. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery he was separated from his mother as a child.
2. He learned to read secretly and was whipped so that he would break.
3. He escaped from slavery using a sailor’s uniform and fake identification papers.
4. He took the surname Douglass from a poem by Sir Walter Scott.
5. His autobiographies were important in spreading the anti-slavery sentiment.
6. He gained legal freedom due to his British supporters.
7. He didn’t support radical abolitionists like William Garrison and John Brown.
8. Douglass was the most prominent African American abolitionist.
9. He was the first African American to be nominated for Vice President of America.
10. He fought for African American and women’s suffrage.