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Was Frederick Douglass black

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Frederick Douglass (Frederick Bailey, c.1818-1895) was born a black slave but escaped. He became a noted abolitionist and worker for equal rights, for blacks and for women. He suggested at one point in his life that his biological father may have been one of his mother's masters in Maryland.

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