Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
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Frederick Douglass was born 1817, in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He was famous for escaping slavery, and his work as an abolitionist. He grew up in Tuckahoe, Maryland as a slave with his mother, Harriet Bailey. In 1836 he attempted to escape from slavery, but unfortunately he failed. Two years later he su ....
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.... a group of men to help large numbers of slaves escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. When Douglass learned on the eve of the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, that Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal and armory there. He objected. Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential elec ....
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