Frederick Douglass

Introduction

Frederick Douglass was a slave turned statesman whose speeches and writings played a significant role in the fight against slavery in the United States. Although Douglass was not a student of philosophy in the scholarly sense, his considerable influence on American political thought is evident in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and other later thinkers on race. Douglass was also a major proponent of women's equality and female suffrage, writing on behalf of, and forming political alliances with, leading nineteenth-century American feminists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. As an author and activist, Douglass ...