"Self-Made Men" is a lecture, first delivered in 1859, by Frederick Douglass, which gives his own definition of the self-made man and explains what he thinks are the means to become such a man.
Frederick Douglass, photographed between 1850 and 1860.
A self-made man, is a person whose success is of their own making.
Benjamin Franklin, c. 1785. Oil by Duplessis
Frederick Douglass, photographed between 1850 and 1860.
Sketch of English novelist Charles Dickens in 1842. Juliet John backed up the claim for Dickens "to be called the first self-made global media star of the age of mass culture."