Students’ Questions about History Page 66

The Holocaust was a genocide in which Nazi Germany killed six million Jews.

Frederick Douglass was an African American abolitionist, social reformer, and orator. He was born into slavery but escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist who fought for the freedom of all slaves in the United States. He was also a social reformer who fought for the equality of all people, regardless of race.

Frederick Douglass was born on February 14, 1818.

Frederick Douglass died of a heart attack on February 20, 1895, at the age of 77.

He was an abolitionist and social reformer.

Frederick Douglass saw the post-Civil War South as a place where African Americans could finally be free from the oppression of slavery. He also saw it as a place where African Americans could begin to build their own communities and create their own destiny.

He taught himself to read and write.

Both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were born into slavery and escaped to freedom. They both became abolitionists and fought for the end of slavery.

He was an abolitionist, orator, writer, and social reformer.