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there is not an exact date of when Fredrick Douglass was born but there is a exact year
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When Douglass was near the age of six, his grandmother walked with him twelve miles from his childhood cabin to the Wye House Plantation
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Chosen to be the companion of Daniel Lloyd
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African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass first saw The Columbian Orator around the age of twelve, just after he learned to read
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But by now, Frederick did not care about having a kind master. All Frederick wanted was his freedom.
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On September 3, 1838, abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate Frederick Douglass made his dramatic escape
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He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal The Liberator, and in 1841 heard Garrison speak at a meeting of the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society. At one of these meetings, Douglass was unexpectedly asked to speak.
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In 1841, Douglass spoke about his slave experiences at a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
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Douglass' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.
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As a major Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad he directly helped hundreds on their way to freedom through his adopted home city of Rochester, NY.
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Becomes president of the troubled Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. Works with the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to save the bank, witch fails horribly
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Douglass marries Helen Pitts, a white woman who had been his secretary when he was recorder of deeds. The interracial marriage causes controversy among the Douglasses' friends, family, and the public.
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Frederick Douglass, "Lecture on Haiti" address delivered at the dedication of the Haitian Pavilion at the World's Fair
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The date Fredrick Douglas died
