audiobook South Carolina's Confederate Hospitals by Rebecca Barbour Calcutt in History

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With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King; Jr.; no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895); an American social reformer; orator; writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive enough even without taking into account the fact that he was born into slavery. After escaping from slavery; Douglass became a leader of the abolitionist movement; gaining note for his dazzling oratory and antislavery writing. He stood out as the living embodiment of an intellectual former slave; the antithesis of slaveholders’ arguments that blacks were an inferior race. Douglass remained active in the fight for civil rights and abolition throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction; urging Lincoln to let black men enlist in the Union. As Douglass constantly stated; nobody had more to fight for in the Civil War than black men.Douglass continued his advocacy all the way until his death in 1895. Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people; advocating on behalf of blacks; women; immigrants and even Native Americans. Douglass famously said; "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."Of all his speeches and writings; his most famous are his autobiographies.