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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. As a young man, he fled to Massachusetts, a free state, where he worked to abolish slavery. During the American Civil War (1861-1865) he helped recruit blacks for the Union Army.
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