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Frederick Douglass: The preeminent anti-slavery voice; 1817-1895

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From: Chicago Citizen
Date: 19970213
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Chicago Citizen
02-13-1997
Frederick Douglass: The preeminent anti-slavery voice; 1817-1895.

Although he was born into slavery and received no formal education. Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most preeminent voices of the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century.

Born in February, 1817, in Talbot County, MD., Douglass developed into a prolific writer and orator of the abolitionist crusade. His writings about slavery described in indelible prose the inhumanity, denigration and destruction that slavery imposed upon Blacks.

Douglas also wrote that the slaveholders suffered, ...

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