... to abolish slavery and continue the Abolitionist Movement. All of this was only the beginning. By the 1800's African American authors, poets and playwrights started emerging out of every direction. Frederick Douglass followed in Equiano's shoes and wrote his own autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. This Narrative gave a vivid and disturbing description of his life as a slave and how he got away. Douglass" writings along with his noted positions as a reformer ... and orator made him the leading voice of African Americans during the 1800's. The first published Afric...

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