How tall was Frederick Douglass?

Frederick Douglass is commonly listed at 6 ft 0 in (183 cm).

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Frederick Douglass’s 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) is tall for a US man: about 85 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Frederick Douglass beside others

Frederick Douglass is in the middle of the 15 writers we have heights for: Peter Freuchen (6 ft 7 in) stands 7 in (18 cm) taller and Lorenz Hart (5 ft 0 in) is 1 ft 0 in (31 cm) shorter.

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6 ft 0 in (183 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerreotype, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Frederick Douglass, 6 ft 0 in (183 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)