Abolition
Frederick Douglass
c. 1818 – 1895
Born enslaved in Talbot County, Maryland. Escaped to freedom in 1838. Author of three autobiographies, publisher of the North Star, presidential adviser, and the most photographed American of the 19th century. His 1852 oration What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? remains among the most exacting moral arguments in the American canon.
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