![]() But later in his career he also became a staunch proponent of political liberalism, Black self-reliance, the self-made man tradition, and other conservative philosophical positions.ĭouglass has been the subject of literary, philosophical, political-theoretical, artistic, and historical analysis for many years. ![]() He was in many ways a radical reformer, even at times a revolutionary. His life was heroic and complex as well as full of personal and public strife. Douglass left thousands of editorials and speeches and 1200 pages of autobiography for us to assess. In American politics he labored both as an outsider–critic and as eventually an appointed insider for the early Republican Party. He was especially well-known and connected in Ireland, Scotland, and England. Internationally he attained fame and influence as a reformer and man of letters. He edited his own antislavery newspaper for sixteen years. Born enslaved in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom in the North at age 20. He went on to write the most important of all slave narratives and became one of the most ubiquitous and important orators of American history. ![]()
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