Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass never knew his birthday. Born Frederick Bailey, he began using the surname Douglass while a fugitive slave, taking it from a character in Walter Scott’s poem “Lady of the Lake.” In time Douglass rose to national and international fame, as a champion of abolition and equal rights. He is believed to have been the most photographed person of the 19th Century.
Frederick Douglass died on this date in 1895.

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