At the end of his final autobiography, Douglass looked back favorably on his life's work, concluding that "although it has at times been dark and stormy, and I have met with hardships from which other men have been exempted, yet my life has in many respects been remarkably full of sunshine and joy" (p. He published four versions of his autobiography: the 1845 Narrative My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) and an expanded version of Life and Times (1892). Marshal for the District of Columbia, President of the Freedman's Bank for former slaves, and Consul General to the Republic of Haiti. Presidents, a city council member and U.S. He went on to serve as an advisor to several U.S. Upon his return to the United States, Douglass officially parted ways with William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society and began to publish a series of abolitionist newspapers. Abolitionists in England purchased his freedom in 1846. After his Narrative was published, Douglass traveled and lectured throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Douglass won early renown as a fugitive slave on the abolitionist lecture circuit, and the 1845 publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave extended his fame throughout the U.S. Throughout his life, he worked to advance the twin causes of abolition and racial equality in the United States. Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition.
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