Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglas was one of the most well-known racial equality advocates. He was the son of a slave woman and unknown white man who escaped slavery around age 20. Douglas wrote 3 autobiographies about his time as a slave, including real names and locations. He moved to Europe for a few years after his autobiographies were published as to not be captured back into slavery. Frederick Douglas also had his own anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star. Douglas’s writing earned hmm fame, and he went on to deliver many anti-slavery speeches around the country after he became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln was delivered on April 14, 1876 eleven
