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Douglass, Frederick
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Douglass, Frederick
(1817–95), born into slavery in Maryland, escaped to Massachusetts (1838), where he was employed as a lecturer by antislavery societies. He published a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845, revised 1892). Fearing capture as a fugitive slave, he spent several years in England and Ireland, returning to purchase his freedom and establish the antislavery newspaper North Star . Since he favored political methods for freeing the slaves, he became a follower of J. G. Birney rather than of Garrison. He organized two regiments of blacks in ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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