Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

White female abolitionists and suffragists were often more comfortable with black male abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, while southern segregationalists and stereotypes of black female promiscuity and immorality caused protests whenever black women spoke.

Frederick Douglass, William Garrison, Horace Greeley, Harriet Stowe, William Seward, Gerrit Smith, Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker, and Cassius Clay used the term caste, rather than race or class, in their writings and speeches to discuss and inspire America to abolish slavery.

* 1818 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist ( d. 1895 )

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

He wrote two more autobiographies, with his last, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, published in 1881 and covering events through and after the Civil War.

A sketch of Frederick Douglass in his twenties

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner () and west of Tuckahoe Creek.

The exact year is also unknown ( on the first page of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, he stated: " I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:

Frederick Douglass circa 1847-52.

Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.

In 1881, after the Civil War, Douglass published Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which he revised in 1892.

Mural featuring Frederick Douglass in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

After returning to the US, Douglass produced some abolitionist newspapers: The North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass ' Paper, Douglass ' Monthly and New National Era.

Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

* In 2007, the former Troup – Howell bridge which carried Interstate 490 over the Genesee River was redesigned and renamed the Frederick Douglass – Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge.

The same year he appeared in The Odessa File, based on Frederick Forsyth's thriller, as Peter Miller, a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former Nazis still operating within Germany.

Theobald concluded a treaty with Isma ' il, in return for territorial concessions that restored Jerusalem to Christian control, as well as much of the rest of the former kingdom, even more territory than Frederick had recovered in 1229.

Honorius III was aware that there was only one man in Europe who could bring about the recovery of the Holy Land, and that man was his former pupil, the Emperor Frederick II of Germany.

SEPP's former Chairman of the Board of Directors is listed as Rockefeller University president emeritus Frederick Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, now deceased.

They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President.

On 17 December 954, he was appointed to the archbishopric of Mainz following the death of the rebellious former archbishop Frederick.

Among these Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ), led by former union leader Frederick Chiluba, was the most important.

* April 30 – Frederick Chiluba, former President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

There is evidence to suggest that Tubman and her group stopped at the home of abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns ; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.

In contrast to the representatives of France, Frederick Augustus was denied participation at the Congress of Vienna as punishment for his supposed role as the quasi-deputy of his former ally Napoleon.

In April 1925, Frederick Rentschler, an Ohio native and former executive at Wright Aeronautical, was determined to start an aviation-related business of his own.

The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass declared " Now I am my own master " when he took a paying job.

At the same time, her former spiritual mentor and good friend, Archdeacon Frederick Neve, disapproved of her conversion and their relationship soured.

On 31 January 1773, King Frederick II announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of West Prussia, while the former Duchy of Prussia and Warmia became the Province of East Prussia.

It is the birthplace of the late Chief Justice of the United States Frederick Moore Vinson and former Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), former slave and noted abolitionist leader, appointed U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877

But Mathew had signed a petition against human bondage in 1842 when he had hosted former slave Frederick Douglass in his Cork home.

There are very few physical remainders of Frederick in Hesse today ; one of them is his large Royal Swedish paraph ( FR ) over the old door of the University of Marburg's former riding hall, now the Institute of Physical Education.

* Character actor Michael Willis, whose credits include Men in Black and HBO's The Wire, and former Maryland state senator and Patuxent River advocate Bernie Fowler both reside in the nearby community of Dares Beach, which utilizes the Prince Frederick zip code.

Discovery-Spring Garden is a former census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

* Frederick Henderson, former CEO of General Motors

On August 22, 1848, after a four-year engagement, Grant married Julia Boggs Dent ( 1826 – 1902 ), the daughter of a prominent Missouri plantation and slave owner, and sister of a West Point roommate, Frederick.

Frederick Douglass, writer, statesman, and himself an escaped slave, wrote critically of the Underground Railroad in his seminal autobiography:

Life and times of Frederick Douglass: his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history, written by himself.

Landscape pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted visited Eagle Pass in 1854 and noted the many slave hunters and runaway slaves residing in Piedras Negras, as well as the many saloons and gambling houses, which catered to Fort Duncan's soldiers and other unsavory characters.

In 1838, Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave who became a famous abolitionist, settled in New Bedford.

Frederick Douglass was not the only fugitive slave or freedman to see New Bedford as a welcoming place to settle.

These efforts were supported by the continuation of the slave narrative autobiography, of which the best known examples from this period include Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

* Abolition movement — The addition of Mexico's former territories in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War reopened the possibility of the expansion of race-based chattel slavery ; the adaptation of the slave system to industrial-style cotton production resulted in increasing dehumanization of black workers and a backlash against slavery in the northern states ; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass, a former slave and publisher of a Rochester, New York, abolitionist newspaper, attended the convention.

Clarkson was named after Thomas Clarkson, the slave trade abolitionist, whom his father knew, and this was the only forename he used, although there is reason to believe Frederick was a second one.

In 1846 Clarkson received the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave who had escaped to freedom, on his first visit to England.

" Yes, there is a slave ( and master ) mentality in Africa, but nothing like the dehumanized institutions that Frederick Douglass had to fight in America.

The gallery features information about figures including William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist ; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad ; and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an abolitionist and orator.

* Frederick Douglass, American slave who escaped to the North, achieved education and led abolition movement in the US.

* North Star ( anti-slavery newspaper ), an anti-slavery newspaper published from 1847 – 1851 by the escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass