Historical Figure
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist (1818–1895)
About Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Colonialism1526 CE – 1867 CE
Atlantic Slave Trade
The forced transportation of an estimated 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas as enslaved labor over more than three centuries, one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.
Economic1807 CE – 1888 CE
Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beginning with Britain's Slave Trade Act of 1807, a decades-long movement abolished the transatlantic slave trade and eventually slavery itself across the Western world, transforming global economics and establishing human rights principles.
War1861 CE – 1865 CE
American Civil War
A conflict between the Union and Confederate states over slavery and states' rights that resulted in abolition and the preservation of the United States.