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frederick was an American slave at the age of 21 he escape all of the poeple that mad him work and sweet blood and tears

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It was one of many things slavery stole from him. But he didn't accept that. He chose February 1818 as his date of birth

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mother is a slave, Harriet Bailey, and father is a white man, rumored to be his master, Aaron Anthony.

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After seeking freedom, Frederick and Anna were married. They decided that with the human traffickers in New York City, it was not a safe place for Frederick, so they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. There, they adopted the last name Douglass and started their family.

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Having escaped chattel slavery in 1838, the anti-slavery author and campaigner Frederick Douglass married Anna Murray, a free woman, later the same year. They had two daughters Rosetta, born 1839 and Annie, born 1849, and three sons Lewis Henry, born 1840, Frederick Jr., born 1842 and Charles Remond, born 1844.

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At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and write in the streets of Baltimore. At twelve, he bought a book called The Columbian Orator.

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Frederick Douglass 1818-1895, while a brilliant man, never attended college. He learned how to read while he was still a slave, and one of his master's wives taught him the alphabet.

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One and God make a majority.” “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” "Frederick Douglass Quotes"

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He chose the last name Douglass from a poem.He taught himself to read and write. He disguised himself as a sailor to escape slavery.

He picked his birthday. He married the woman who helped him escape. Douglass was an abolitionist. 6 fact about him

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{what he did}He became the most important leader of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.