Frederick Douglass
1818 – 1895 · United States · Literature, Philosophy
His Narrative was abolition's most powerful weapon.
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- W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963 · Philosophy, History
Du Bois inherits and radicalises Douglass's abolitionist argument for full citizenship.
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