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Frederick Douglass
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Born in Maryland
tuckahoe, talbot county, Maryland -
Northern states are forbidden of Slavery
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Slave revolt in SC
35 participants hanged -
began labor
only a little boy - six years old -
Slave Revolt in Virginia
Led by Nat Turner -
First Negro Covention held
Philidelphia, PA -
Escaped slavery
Fought master and escaped Baltimore -
First hears famous abolitionists
Inspired by William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips -
became orator
spoke of the brutalities of slavery -
employed as a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery society.
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Publishes an auto biography named The Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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Leaves for England and Scotland to escape slave hunters.
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English admirers purchase Douglass' freedom and he returns to the US
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Publishes North Star, an abolitionist newspaper
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Harsher Fugitive Slave Law
Enforced bt northern congressmen -
Uncle Tom's Cabin published
Sold 300,000 copiesand increasing feelings on slaves in North and South -
Publishes second autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom
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Dred Scott Decision
-blacks can never be citizens -
Douglass rejects John Brown asking to join revolt
John Brown stayed at Douglass house -
John Brown Raid
Attack Harpers Ferry, VA and taken prisoner -
Emmancipation Proclamation
All slaves free in Rebel territory -
Receives Lincoln's walking stick from Mrs. Lincoln
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13th Ammendment
Abolished Slavery -
15th ammendment
Rightto vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Becomes federal marshal for the District of Columbia
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Dies in Ceder Hill
