বায়োগ্রাফি: Frederick Douglass was born as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland and became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York After escaping from slavery in Maryland. he became famous for his rhetoric. He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. During his time he was known by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.