Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) lived a long and influential life following the release of his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, in 1845. My Bondage and My Freedom followed in 1855; his third autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, was published in 1881.
Douglass was active in the abolitionist movement before the Civil War, lecturing in England during the 1840s. He became acquainted with President Abraham Lincoln and gave an impromptu speech at Lincoln's memorial. After the war, he became a bank president, served as marshal of the District of Columbia, and was ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He was nominated for vice president (without his knowledge or participation) of the Equal Rights Party before become a federal marshal in 1877. He continued to lecture on the rights of Negroes. He married a white feminist in 1884 and became involved in the women's rights movement.
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