Frederick+Douglass+by+Rebekah

​ __Frederick Douglass by Rebekah __
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 * Former slave[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg/240px-Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg width="240" height="345" align="right" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_portrait.jpg"]]
 * Publisher "The North Star"
 * Assisted runaway slaves
 * Anti-slavery and early civil rights leader
 * Anti-slaverly lecture
 * Orator and lecturer
 * Encouraged freed slaves to join the Union army

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland.