Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass (born February 1818 in Talbot County) was an African American social reformer Abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.  After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the Abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York.  He was famous for his oratory (speaking) and incisive antislavery writings, such as “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”.  This was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.