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.

Canadian journalist and writer Frederick Arthur McKenzie wrote that in poorer areas, " there was a vast amount of sympathy with the rebels, particularly after the rebels were defeated.

* 2006 – Frederick Franck, American artist and writer ( b. 1909 )

* 1830 – Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer, writer, and politician, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State ( d. 1915 )

* June 16 – James Frederick Ferrier, Scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher

* Frederick Raphael ( born 1931 ) American born writer resident in England

* Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

Frederick Bligh Bond, archaeologist and writer.

Kilmer was born 6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the fourth and youngest child, of Annie Ellen Kilburn ( 1849 – 1932 ), a minor writer and composer, and Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer ( 1851 – 1934 ), a physician and analytical chemist employed by the Johnson and Johnson Company and inventor of the company's baby powder.

Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals ; the first, Life of the Party, closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, What's Up?

Famous people to originate from Southgate include Leigh Hunt, the English essayist and writer, who was born here in 1784, and Frederick Hitch, one of the men awarded a Victoria Cross for the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

Wimbledon House, a separate residence close to the village at the south end of Parkside ( near present day Peek Crescent ), was home in the 1790s to the exiled French statesman Vicomte de Calonne, and later to the mother of writer Frederick Marryat.

( Carl ) Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian.

* Frederick Dilley Glidden ( pen name Luke Short ), Western writer, known for Ramrod ( 1947 ) and Blood on the Moon ( 1948 )

* Frederick Brotherton Meyer ( 1847 – 1929 ), evangelist, writer, and moral reformer

* Frederick Albion Ober ( 1849 – 1913 ), naturalist and writer

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

* Frederick Emerson Peters, U. S. celebrity impersonator and writer of bad checks.

Arthur is also the principal character of an alternative history novel by the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe (' Baron Corvo '), entitled Hubert's Arthur, posthumously published by A. J.

* Frederick Douglass 1818 – February 20, 1895, social reformer, orator, writer, statesman, leader in the underground railroad and statesmen " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

* After five years as an English Teacher, Frederick Buechner moves to New York to become a full-time writer.

* Johann Friedrich Schweitzer, also known as John Frederick Helvetius ( 1625 – 1709 ), a Dutch physician and alchemical writer of German extraction

Frederick Barton Maurice was a British General and writer, and like his grandfather F. D.

* 1782 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, British statesman ( d. 1859 )

* 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman ( d. 1824 )

Mr. Glass ' wig was modeled after Afro-American statesman Frederick Douglass.

* February 14 – Frederick Douglass ( his day of birth was never established ; he adopted this date ), American abolitionist author and statesman ( d. 1895 )

* May 30 – Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. soldier and statesman ( d. 1912 )

* November 22 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman ( d. 1824 )

In 1655 king Frederick III of Denmark endowed the Faroe Islands to his favourite statesman Kristoffer Gabel, the rule of the von Gabel Family, 1655 – 1709, is known as Gablatíðin.

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818-1891, American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer

* Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe ( 1951 –), prominent Conservative Party statesman, was Defence Minister, Agriculture Minister, among others

* Frederick Douglass ( 1818 – 1895 ), American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer

Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 22 November 1721 – 27 October 1824 ( or 24 October 1824 ) was a Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman, who served as aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe in Lower Canada.

Frederick Henry proved himself almost as good a general as his brother, and a far more capable statesman and politician.

George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG, GCB, PC ( 12 January 1800 – 27 June 1870 ), was an English diplomat and statesman.

Frederick William, Prince von Hessenstein ( 26 November 1735, Panker-17 April 1808, Paris ), was a Swedish soldier and statesman.

* Frederick Frelinghuysen ( general ) ( 1753 – 1804 ), Revolutionary-era statesman, U. S. Senator

George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG, PC ( 18 April 1802 – 5 December 1864 ), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British politician, statesman and orator.

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, PC, KC ( 12 July 1872 – 30 September 1930 ), best known to history as F. E. Smith, was a British Conservative statesman and lawyer of the early 20th century.

* Frederick William von Hessenstein ( 1735-1808 ), Swedish statesman and soldier

* F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead ( Frederick Edwin Smith, 1872 – 1930 ), British Conservative statesman ; Attorney-General, Lord Chancellor