1 Jan 1838 Jahr - Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland, but fled in 1838 to New Bedford Massachusetts. In 1842 he wrote his life's story in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and went on a two year lecture tour in England, where British Abolitionists purchased his freedom and he was then able to return to the U.S. as a free man. Some Abolitionists opposed African American independent voices because, although such abolitionists opposed the system of slavery, they still believed that blacks were inferior to whites. Nonetheless, the independent actions of Douglass and other black activists expanded the antislavery movement.

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