Frederick Douglass Persuasive Speech

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Frederick Douglass was an American abolish, an author, and a orator. He escaped slavery at the age of 20. He wrote three autobiographies, that described how it was to be a important works of the slave narrative tradition. For 16 years he edited an influential black newspaper, and achieved international fame as an inspiring and persuasive speaker and writer. In thousands of speeches he spoke against slavery and racism. Frederick Douglass was the most important black american leader of the nineteenth century.
He was born to a slave woman, but upon the escape of slavery he took the name of a hero of Sir Walter Scott’s. He was a matter of irony, as illustrated by his famous Fourth of July speech in 1852. Then he accused his unsuspecting audience

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