Frederick Douglass' Death
Born (Birthday) February 14, 1818
Death Date February 20, 1895
Age of Death 77 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Profession Autobiographer
The autobiographer Frederick Douglass died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Former slave who became an abolitionist author and speaker. He detailed his remarkable life in his famous 1845 autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
He married his first wife, Anna Murray, in 1838. The couple had three sons and two daughters. Following Murray’s death, Douglass married Helen Pitts, a white feminist twenty years his junior.
Quotes
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
"When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.