Answer: A) He was a former enslaved person who became a speaker.
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became an abolitionist and famous speaker. Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland, and became an important leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York. He was particularly famous for his speeches and his oratory skills. He also wrote several autobiographies. One of them, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, became a bestseller and greatly helped the abolitionist movement.