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Frederick Douglass was born in februrary in 1818, his original name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, he later changed his name to Frederick Douglass because of the hero in sir walter scott's "The Lady Of The Lake"
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Frederick Douglass escaped slavery at the age of 20 years old, douglass described his life as a slave in his first three auto biographies "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" which he published in 1845 and "My Bondage and My Freedom" also "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass"
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Douglass spent most of his life living in Rochester N.Y. where he edited the most influential black newspaper called "The North Star" (1847-1851)
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Not only did douglass edit "The North Star" but he had another paper called "Frederick Douglass' Paper"
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After "Frederick Douglass' Paper" douglass moved on to the "Douglass Monthly" douglass was looked at as a very successful writer and he strive to do his best at anything and everything he did (1859-63)
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Douglass strongly supported the civil war, he worked as a propagandist during the war and he worked as a black recruiter and eventually as an advisor to Abraham Lincoln
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In the 1870s douglass had moved to washington DC where he edited the newspaper "The New National Era" and he became president of freedmans bank
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Douglass had five children with his wife Anne Murray a free black woman, who followed him out of slavery in 1838, and in less than 2 years after she died he married Helen Pitts his white former secretary.
