Frederick Douglass is a famous activist and author during the mid to late 1800s who was born on February of 1818 as a slave. Although it was prohibited for slaves to learn how to be literate, his slave-owner’s wife ended up teaching him how to read and write. After becoming a free man and settling with his wife, Douglass became an Active Abolitionist. Douglass was also known to be a supporter of women’s rights. Douglass was known to be a critic of Lincoln, supporting John C Freemont even after the Emancipation Proclamation (Biography.com). Douglass was disappointed Lincoln had not acted sooner, and that he was not publically endorsing black freedom. In the Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Douglass brings up many of the criticisms he holds
