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Uncovering slave 'village': Ex-Eastern Shore plantation once home to Frederick Douglass yields clues to past.

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From: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
Date: 20060719
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Byline: Jamie Stiehm

Jul. 19--EASTON--In his vaunted autobiography, abolitionist and diplomat Frederick Douglass vividly describes life as a slave on a prominent Eastern Shore plantation, with a "great house" he recalled as an "elaborate exhibition of wealth, power and beauty." The imposing estate, by the waters of the Wye River near this Talbot County seat, still stands and is still home to the family who owned it when a young Douglass kept fireplaces stocked with wood. Listed as a national historic landmark, the Wye House, built in the late 1700s, has been studied for ...

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