Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
Given his influence and fame, Douglass possibly ‘abolitionized’ more readers and listeners than any other American. He stood apart from his peers in his ability to reveal, in great depth and richness, the psychologies of slavery and freedom, and in employing novelistic structures in his nonfiction.” —John Stauffer and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., THE PORTABLE FREDERICK DOUGLASS (2016), p. xxxiii
