what were frederick douglass achievements?
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 In 1859 he published an article using scientific findings and analysis to refute the former president Thomas Jefferson 's theories of race , as expressed in his well @-@ known Notes on the State of Virginia ( 1785 ) . Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble , a medical doctor and historian at George Washington University , in 2010 noted , " As early as 1859 , Dr. McCune Smith said that race was not biological but was a social category . " He also commented on the positive ways that ethnic Africans would influence US culture and society , in music , dance , food , and other elements . His collected essays , speeches and letters have been published as The Works of James McCune Smith : Black Intellectual and Abolitionist ( 2006 ) , edited by John Stauffer . 

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 In 2002 , scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed William Monroe Trotter among his 100 Greatest African Americans . 

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 The perception of Bligh as an overbearing tyrant began with Edward Christian 's Appendix of 1794 . Apart from Bligh 's journal , the first published account of the mutiny was that of Sir John Barrow , published in 1831 . Barrow was a friend of the Heywood family ; his book mitigated Heywood 's role while emphasising Bligh 's severity . The book also instigated the legend that Christian had not died on Pitcairn , but had somehow returned to England and been recognised by Heywood in Plymouth , around 1808 – 09 . An account written in 1870 by Heywood 's stepdaughter Diana Belcher further exonerated Heywood and Christian and , according to Alexander , " cemented ... many falsehoods that had insinuated their way into the narrative " . 

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 Among numerous other works supporting abolitionism and dealing with issues related to race , Smith is well known for his introduction to Frederick Douglass ' second autobiography , My Bondage and My Freedom ( 1855 ) . It expressed the new independence in African @-@ American accounts of slavery , compared to earlier works , which had to seek approval for authentication from white abolitionists , as readers rejected some harsh accounts of conditions under slavery . Smith wrote : 

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 Frederick Douglass ( d . 1854 ) , not to be confused with Frederick Douglass 
