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Frederick Douglass was born as a slave. After changing his owners several times, he got lucky with one of their wifes, she treated him well and taught him to read and to write.

Eventually he managed to escape and became an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

He was the most influential African American of the 19th century. In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, one of three Autobiographies he wrote about his struggles and experiences.