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Frederick Douglass was born February 1818, in Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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Semptember 3, 1838 he disguised himself as a sailor and boarded a northbound train, using money from Anna to pay for his ticket.

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in less than 24 hours, Frederick arrived in New York City and declared himself free. He had successfully escaped from slavery.

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After escaping from slavery, Frederick married Anna on September 15, 1838 They decided that New York City was not a safe place for Frederick to remain as a fugitive, so they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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In 1845, he published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, to lay those doubts to rest. The narrative gave a clear record of names and places from his enslavement.

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In 1861, the nation erupted into Civil War over the issue of slavery. Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war's outcomes.

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On April 12, 1865 according to the article the civil war ended because "Peace eventually came when each of the seceded states returned to the Union and accepted the terms on which that Union was based."

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He then remarried in 1884 to Helen Pitts, an activist and the daughter of former abolitionists. Their marriage stirred controversy, as Helen was white and twenty years younger than him.

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They traveled to Europe and Africa in 1886-1887, and they took up temporary residence in Haiti during Douglass's service there in 1889-1891.

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He returned home to Cedar Hill in the late afternoon and was preparing to give a speech at a local church when he suffered a heart attack and passed away. Douglass was 77. He had remained a central figure in the fight for equality and justice for his entire life.