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Frederick D. was many things, including a human rights and woman rights activist, and many other things that helped achieve justice for all Americans, especially for African-Americans, women, and minority groups. He was a man committed to freedom.

Douglass often served as an advisor for presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who said he was the most creditable man of the nineteenth century. Later in his life, he was appointed to several offices, and then by President Grant, he was to be secretary of the commission of Santo Domingo.

Fred D. taught himself to read, and he soon realized that was the key to freedom. At only twenty years old, he escaped to north, gaining his freedom, then settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts along with his wife. There, he became part of the abolitionist movement.

William Loyd Garrison hired him as a spokesman for the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, having realized Freddie’s full potential …. and now I can’t even concentrate on this because some peopleare running their mouths. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it’s the morning, someone’s talking non-stop, and I’m about to rip something to shreds.

Now, basically, I’m going to get through this before I go insane. He supported woman’s rights, but he said that if anyone was to get rights first, it should be men. In his newly run news paper, the North Star, it once said, “Right is of no Sex - Truth is on no Color.” Freddie died in February of 1895, as the article said, “having just attended a Woman’s Council meeting.”