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He chose his name from a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake.

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On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. Frederick Douglass told his audience, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." And he asked them, "Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?"

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The statue, which is approximately seven feet tall, depicts Douglass as a man in his fifties in the act of giving a speech with a determined expression.

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Douglass personally helped to enlist men for the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiments and served as a leading advocate for the equal treatment of African Americans in the military.

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Douglass was also the first African American ever to be nominated for the vice presidency. He declined the nomination, which had come from the little known Equal Rights Party in 1872.

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During the civil war, he advised President Lincoln to let former slaves fight for the North, and helped organize two black regiments in Massachusetts. Douglass worked hard to make the war a direct confrontation with slavery.

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Written By Frederick Douglass, the book talks about his life in slavery and how he became free.

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in February 1817, on a plantation west of the Tuckahoe River in Talbot County, Maryland. His mother was a black slave, and his father most likely her white owner.