Frederick Douglass
Born 14 Feb 1818 · Died 20 Feb 1895
From Talbot County, Maryland, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
Frederick Douglass (c. February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.
Douglassbot: a Frederick Douglass AI
Talk with Douglassbot, an AI that answers as Frederick Douglass, in his voice, from his books. It reads the full text of 8 of his books from Project Gutenberg, and Charles W. Chesnutt's 1899 biography and Booker T. Washington's of 1907. Words in quotation marks are truly his, with the book and chapter.
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Quotes
“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
Chapter VI “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Chapter 10 “To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Chapter 10 “I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Chapter 10 “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Frederick Douglass in order
Books by Frederick Douglass in the order they were published, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) to The Portable Frederick Douglass (2016).
- 1Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Sla
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave1845 - 2The Heroic Slave
The Heroic Slave1852 - 3My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom1855 - 4The Anti-slavery Movement
The Anti-slavery Movement1855 - 5U.S. Grant and the Colored People
U.S. Grant and the Colored People1872 - 6John Brown
John Brown1881 - 7The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass1881 - 8Three Addresses on the Relations Subsisting Between the Whit
Three Addresses on the Relations Subsisting Between the White and Colored People of the United States1886 - 9The Nation's ProblemThe Nation's Problem1889
- 10Why Is the Negro Lynched?
Why Is the Negro Lynched?1895 - 11Frederick Douglas
Frederick Douglas2003 - 12Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass
Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass2008 - 13What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?2015 - 14The Portable Frederick Douglass
The Portable Frederick Douglass2016 - 15Autobiographies
Autobiographies - 16Escape from Slavery
Escape from Slavery - 17Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass - 18Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights
Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights - 19Frederick Douglass, in His Own Words
Frederick Douglass, in His Own Words - 20The Frederick Douglass Papers
The Frederick Douglass Papers - 21The Frederick Douglass Papers: Volume 3, Series OneThe Frederick Douglass Papers: Volume 3, Series One
- 22The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglas
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglas - 23The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass - 24The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader
The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader