Frederick Douglass

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struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and
eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry,
women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal
peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be
insensitive to the wrongs and sufferings of any part of the great family of
man."

Douglass would eventually split with Garrison and the largely white
abolitionist movement to work more closely with the Black leaders of the
time. Many of the leading black figures of the time were critical of
Douglass. They did not believe that justice could ever be achieved for
Blacks in this country while Douglass maintained an optimistic vision for
America.

During the Civil War Frederick Douglass worked as an enlistment
officer and encouraged President Lincoln to make Emancipation an issue in
the Civil War. Following the war Douglass would work for the Freedman's
Bureau, the Freedman Bank and hold ...

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