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In 1838 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped slavery in Maryland with assistance from his soon-to-be wife, a free Black woman, Anna Murray. They settled in Massachusetts, a center of Abolitionist effort. Douglass quickly became a leading orator,…

Broadside commemorating the opening of Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY on Central Avenue and North Saint Paul Street, 1899