Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement and one of the leading social reformers, orators, and authors of his time.
The great abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass died 125 years ago. Today, Jacobin publishes never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denouncing capitalism and economic inequality.
Two articles published in 1856 in Frederick Douglass’ Paper: “The Accumulation of Wealth” and “The Land Reformer.”
Frederick Douglass, 1852: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”