Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Happy Valentine’s Day
2 min readFeb 14, 2024
Today, Valentine’s Day is also the chosen birthday of the celebrated American abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman Frederick Douglass. As a former enslaved person, he never knew his exact birth year which was posthumously determined to be 1818.
The only information given to him by a former master was that he was born in February. Not…
