About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Absalom Jones, Alexander Crummell, Amos Noe Freeman, Austin Steward, Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, Charles Bennett Ray, Charles Henry Langston, Charles Lenox Remond, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Dangerfield Newby, David Leroy Nickens, David Ruggles, David Walker (abolitionist), Eliza Winston, Ellen and William Craft, Frances Harper, Frederick Douglass, George Latimer (escaped slave), George Washington Williams, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Harriet Tubman, Henry Bibb, Henry Box Brown, Henry Highland Garnet, James Forten, James McCune Smith, James W.C. Pennington, Jane Johnson (slave), Jermain Wesley Loguen, John Brown Russwurm, John Mercer Langston, John Parker (abolitionist), John Rock (abolitionist), John Teasman, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Joseph Winters, Josiah Henson, Lemuel Haynes, Lewis Hayden, List of African-American abolitionists, Maria W. Stewart, Martin Delany, Mary Ann Shadd, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Patrick H. Reason, Peter H. Clark, Robert Purvis, Robert Roberts (butler), Samuel Burris, Samuel Cornish, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Sarah Parker Remond, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Theodore S. Wright, William Cooper Nell, William Wells Brown, William Whipper. Excerpt: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an 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. Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845...
