Frederick Douglass
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was born in or around 1817 into slavery in
Maryland. He escaped in 1838. He was a great orator and writer, and he was
a leading figure in the abolitionist m movement. He was the son of Harriet
Bailey and an unknown white man. His mother was a slave so therefore he
was born a slave. He was sepa ....
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.... of the horrifying
conditions that slaves faced. At the age of twenty, Douglass succeeded in
escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor.
After Douglass escaped, he started to show people the evils of
slavery. He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended
abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery
convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd
Garrison. ....
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