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-'''Frederick Douglass''' (1818-1895), born as Frederick Baily, was raised as a [[slave]].  He escaped to [[Massachusetts]] at age 20 and changed his name to Frederick Douglass in order to conceal himself from slave catchers.
-He developed marvelous [[debate|debating]] and [[oration|oratory]] skills to expose the injustices of slavery. [[William Lloyd Garrison]], publisher of the [[abolition|abolitionist]] Liberator Newspaper, hired him.
-Douglass published a best-selling [[autobiography]], but then felt he had to flee to [[England]] to avoid being caught by slave catchers.  Reformer Daniel O'Connell formed a friendship with him there.
-Upon his return to [[New York]], he founded the [[North Star]] newspaper.
-His motto was "[[Right]] is of no sex - [[Truth]] is of no color - [[God]] is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren."
-Douglass wrote, "I loved all mankind, slaveholder not excepted, though I abhorred
-slavery more than ever. I saw the world in a new light ... I gathered scattered pages of the [[Bible]] from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of [[wisdom]] from them."
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-[[Category:Abolitionists]]