Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass will appear in an upcoming episode of Epic Rap Battles of History in Season 5. He will be portrayed by J. B. Smoove.

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Frederick Douglass, originally known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born circa February, 1818, on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his incisive anti-slavery writings. He would later become a friend of Abraham Lincoln, though highly critical of Lincoln's supposed weak leadership.

In his time, Douglass was described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. He also actively supported women's suffrage, and held several public offices. Without his approval, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He died at the age of 77 on February 20th, 1895, in Washington, D.C.

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 * A preview of Douglass was shown during the Behind the Scenes end slate of J. R. R. Tolkien vs George R. R. Martin.