Around the time of the Civil War, he met Abraham Lincoln and helped to influence the Emancipation Proclamation. Also, because of how much work he did to make sure that women and all people had equal rights and the ability to vote, Douglass was even nominated for Vice President of the United States as a member of the ticket for the Equal Rights Party in 1872. That means that Frederick Douglass was the first African-American man to have his name on a Presidential ballot back in 1872. Douglass continued to stay active with civil and equal rights movements for the rest of his life, even attending a meeting of the National Council of Women right before he returned home and died of what might have been a heart attack or a stroke in 1895 in Washington, DC.
Learning about Frederick Douglass helps to understand more about the struggles that enslaved individuals went through, as well as understanding what a determined and courageous person Douglass was. With some kindness shown by a plantation owner’s wife, with some help from his future wife, by standing up for himself, and by educating himself and others, Frederick Douglass played a big part in making sure that slavery would be outlawed, which happened with the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of