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Frederick Douglass - Journalist & Civil Rights Activist | Mini Bio | BIO

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Slave marriages had no legal basis, but slaves did marry and raise large families; most slave owners encouraged this practice, but nonetheless did not hesitate to divide slave families by sale or removal.

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From the 1830s to the 1860s, a movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength in the northern United States, led by free blacks such as Fredrick Douglass and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the radical newspaper The Liberator, and ,Harriet Beecher Stowe who published the bestselling antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852).

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The treatments of slavery were very brutal and degrading. Including physical abuse, rape, and sexual abuse were common.

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The slaves would be whipped on their back repeatedly by their master or plantation watcher for disobeying or not working.

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In the past slavery was very harsh, millions of African's were captured by Europeans and brought to America to work for the white people.