Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 right into slavery. As a kid he went through a lot, eventually leading to two of his attempted escapes. He finally succeeded on his second attempt with the help of Anna Murray whom he had fallen in love with at the time. When he had grown up he became an abolitionist leader, and he supported women rights and equal rights to all human beings. He wrote many works talking about his experience being a slave. He died on February 20, 1895. James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924. As a kid he has been known as a great writer on the topics of slavery and human rights. Much of his life he devoted to writing to many audiences mainly to persuade that the issue of racism was extreme. He died on December 1,
