Frederic Douglass
(1818–1895)Escaped Slave, Abolitionist Orator, and Statesman
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” Frederick Douglass promoted equality for all people, black, white, woman, tribal American, or immigrant.
Frederick Douglass knew about overcoming adversity, an escaped slave, he became the leading African American abolitionist, and statesman of his era. Douglass was an early and ardent proponent of woman rights and was the only black to attend the Seneca Falls meeting in 1848. He was nominated for Vice President by the party that selected Victoria as its candidate for President.
Escaped Slave, Abolitionist Orator, and Statesman
Douglass was a compelling orator and trenchant antislavery writer. Once he began to speak, others had no choice but to sit back and listen. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders’ arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
This debut novel won 12 literary awards. OUTRAGEOUS, traces an icon of Victorian American feminism, Victoria Woodhull from childhood poverty and horrific abuse to becoming one of the wealthiest women in America, founding the first woman-owned brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the first woman-owned newspaper. Victoria will stop at nothing to achieve her destiny.

2016 Winner of three Gold Medals: IBPA Ben Franklin, Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book by a Publisher, the IPPY Award for Best Historical Fiction, and Gold Medal for Historical Fiction/Personage by Reader's Favorite. Other Awards: Finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Second Place winner of the IndieReader Discovery Award for Best Fiction, Best New Fiction in the International Book Awards for 2016, Finalist in two categories Independent Author Network Book of the Year, Chantecleer Goethe Award Finalist, Shelf Unbound Notable 100, and one of IndieReader's Best Books of 2016.