Frederick Douglas was an African-American abolitionist, slave and writer. He was born in 1818 in Maryland and died in 1895 in Washington D.C. He was born a slave in Maryland, he escaped slavery in 1838. After escaping slavery, he worked as an abolitionist, wrote many works on anti slavery, and became famous for his speeches. He was noted by abolitionists as being as a counter example to slaveowner arguments that slaves did not have the mental capacity or intellect to function independently in an American society. People in the north found it hard to believe that he was a slave because he was such a good orator. Douglas wrote many autobiographies throughout his life including “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave”, “My