The Frederick Douglas Limited Edition | Fountain Pen

The LeBoeuf Pen Company proudly honors Frederick Douglass, the Father of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, with this stunning limited Edition Fountain Pen and Roller Ball. Frederick Douglas was the most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which time, he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which became a bestseller and was influential in promoting the cause of abolition.  He embraced the women's rights movement, helped people on the Underground Railroad, and supported anti-slavery political parties. He bought a printing press and ran his own newspaper, The North Star. In 1855, he published hi