Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Presidential Advisor

Frederick Douglass wasn’t born with that name, nor was he born on the day he later adopted as his birthday. At birth, he was christened Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. The date he was born has been lost to history...but later in life he decided that February 14th would be the day on which he marked his entrance into the world. →Subscribe for new videos every Monday and Thursday! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Vote for the Biography you want us to next. Click here to vote: http://biographics.org/you-choose-the-biography/ Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Jamie Carter Logan Producer - Jack Cole Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Biographies by the book, get Frederick Douglass biography from Amazon: http://amzn.to/2inAcgL Other Biographics Videos: Vladimir Putin - KGB to President... for Life? - Biography https://youtu.be/xZcE45Ap4es?list=PLy3kHTZWA8OgItQFcXfmYOmhLajmngW7p Arnold Schwarzenegger Biography - The Real Muscle is His Brain https://youtu.be/cPNazmU4OMg?list=PLy3kHTZWA8OgItQFcXfmYOmhLajmngW7p Source/Further reading: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass https://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324 http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/politics/douglass-5-things/index.html