Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland. He learned to read from white children in his neighborhood when he was 12. After he escaped to the North, he became a great lecturer and writer. Which of these statements is true regarding Douglass? He received a nomination for president of the United States in 1872. Douglass believed the Constitution could be used to abolish slavery. He urged freed slaves to move to Kansas and build all-black towns. He approved of guerilla warfare and an armed slave revolt in the Sout