Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass Delivered in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 9, 1894

Download or read book Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass Delivered in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 9, 1894 written by Frederick Douglass and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orator had been a slave.