# The Story of Frederick Douglass **URL:** **By** Nicholas Buccola **Published:** September 28, 2012 --- Nicholas Buccola briefly sketches out Douglass's incredible life, from his origins as a slave to his success as one of the most renowned orators of his age. A self-taught escaped slave, statesman, and leader of the American Abolitionist Movement, Frederick Douglass is best known for his speeches and autobiographies, in which he stressed the universal equality of all humans. Nicholas Buccola is the author of [_The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass_](http://www.amazon.com/The-Political-Thought-Frederick-Douglass/dp/0814787118/) (2012). He briefly sketches out Douglass's incredible life, from his origins as a slave in Maryland to his success as one of the most renowned orators and abolitionists of his age.