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1 author names match this search. Names and uncertain attributions are preserved as recorded.

Photographic portrait, circa 1879George Kendall Warren; cropped reproduction · Public domain

Frederick Douglass

American abolitionist and autobiographical writer whose accounts connect literacy, coercive power and the struggle for freedom. Supplied fragments retain their uncertainty.

1818 AD – 1895 AD · 67 collected ↗