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Frederick Douglass and Lincoln in Black History Month
February highlights the births of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Douglass, born enslaved in Maryland, learned to read, escaped to seek freedom, lectured against slavery, published a newspaper, and served in government after the Civil War. The Frederick Douglass home area houses the Smithsonian museum space in Washington D.C.
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