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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass was born into slavery in Cardova, Maryland on February 14, 1818.

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On September 3, 1838, Douglass managed his dramatic escape from slavery. He traveled north by train and boat from Baltimore, through Delaware, and then Philadelphia. The same night, he took another train to finally reach New York.

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He first hears abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Philips, among others.

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Douglass delivers a speech in Elmira, New York, and then to a station for the Underground Railroad, where a black congregation would be created a few years later.

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First speaks at an abolitionist meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts after being urged by William C. Coffin.