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Frederick Douglass Born a Slave Led Fight for Freedom
Frederick Douglass born to a slave mother in Maryland around 1817, lived with grandparents, then on Lloyd and Auld plantations. He learned to read in secrecy with white peers, faced beatings, and endured hunger and cold as he pursued education and escape from slavery.
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Frederick Douglass
Tuckahoe
Maryland
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick
Isaac and
Betsey Bailey
Aaron Anthony
Edward Lloyd
Katy
Lloyd Plantation
Hugh Auld
Baltimore
Little Thomas Auld
Thomas
St. Michaels
Covey
Deep South
Douglass
New York
Underground
New Bedford
Mass
William Lloyd Garrison
the Liberator
Garrison
Massachusetts
England
Boston
Lyceum
Weymouth
London
America
Rochester
N.Y
The
North Star
Lincoln
Stili
Grant
San Domingo
District of Columbia
Haiti
U.S
Washington
Freedmen’s Bank
North
John Hutchinson
Esse