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		Display Information Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass--one of America's most brilliant authors, orators, and organizers and the nineteenth century's most famous black leader--was the first fugitive slave to speak out publicly agains ... read this biography Documents related to this person: I Am for Liberty The Circumstances that Prompt Masters to Whip Slaves His Battle with a "Negro-Breaker" The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro Frederick Douglass Assesses the State of African Americans in 1880 How He Escaped from Slavery Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or ... read this biography Documents related to this person: The Igbo Religion of Eastern Nigeria Sojourner Truth She was born into slavery around 1797 in New York State’s Hudson River Valley, 80 miles from New York City. As a slave, she was known simply as “Isabella.” But a decade and a half after escaping from ... read this biography Documents related to this person: Ain't I a Woman?