2020-07 2 sessions
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DOUGLASS, Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; 1817-1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. At the 1888 Republican National Convention, Douglass became the first African American to receive a vote for President of the United States in a major party's roll call vote. Document Signed "Fred'k Douglass" as Recorder of Deeds, May 9, 1885. Fine condition.PSA Authentication.
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