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He was a well respected black orator during the civil war era. He was a leader in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and civil rights for all black people. He advocated the use of free black males as union soldiers. He was the supreme abolitionist He had an audience with president Lincoln on several occasion's.

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1. He was an escaped slave who became an extremely influential and important person

2. He became rich and was pretty much the only rich free black in America at that time

3. He could help the abolitionist movement because he was black and the whites would still listen to him

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How many books did Frederick Douglass write?

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