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 rederick Douglass rose from slavery to become the leading African-American voice
of the nineteenth century. At an early age, he realized that his ability to read was the
key to freedom. All of his efforts from then on focused on achieving freedom.
As a young man, he came into contact with black preachers and taught in the
Sabbath School in Baltimore. Here he refined his reading, writing, and speaking
skills. At age twenty, Douglass escaped north to freedom. He settled in New Bedford,
Massachusetts with his wife Anna Murray Douglass and joined the
abolitionist movement.
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