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Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass
Writer. Abolitionist

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a renowned African-American writer and social reformer. He escaped from slavery as a young man, wrote a bestselling autobiography, and was a figurehead of U.S. abolitionist movements.

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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an African-American writer and social reformer known for his rousing antislavery speeches. His bestselling autobiography detailed his harrowing childhood as an enslaved young man in Maryland. Once he escaped, Douglass traveled and led abolitionist movements in Massachusetts and New York.

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