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  2. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

  3. Anna Murray Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Anna Murray Douglass (1813 – August 4, 1882) was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death.

  4. Nathan Johnson (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Johnson (ca. 1797-1880) was an African-American abolitionist who sheltered fugitive slaves, most notably Frederick Douglass, and was a successful businessman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He married Mary Durfee, nicknamed Polly, who was his business partner in their confectionery and catering businesses.

  5. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass was a writer and orator who had escaped slavery. He wrote critically of the attention drawn to the ostensibly secret Underground Railroad in his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845):

  6. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass, c.1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...

  7. 45 Frederick Douglass Quotes To Celebrate His ... - AOL

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    Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer and statesman who successfully escaped slavery in 1838.

  8. Fugitive Slave Convention - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass, formerly an escaped slave, memoirist, elected president of the convention. [19] The Edmonson sisters, Mary and Emily, 15 and 17, formerly escaped slaves aboard The Pearl, William Chaplin's failed project. They sang "I hear the voice of Lovejoy on Alton's bloody plain" at the opening. [20] [19]

  9. NAACP Co-Founder's 1875 DC Townhouse – Site Of Frederick ...

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    A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen ...