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Frederick Douglass, February 1818 - February 20, 1895
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879
From the Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables:
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Frederick Douglass, February 1818 - February 20, 1895

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879

From the Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables:

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