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Frederick Douglass: American Anti-Slavery Society

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According to the materiel Of The People, Frederick Douglass was born as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbo Country, Maryland, in 1818. He was born into slavery and at the age of seven he was sent to Baltimore and became a ship caulker. He hired out his labor, paying his master three dollars a week and keeping the rest for himself per their agreement. Frederick planned his escape when his master told him to pay him all his earnings rather that just the three dollars a week. After he escaped to the north he started attending and speaking at antislavery meetings. William Lloyd Garrison heard Douglass speak and invited him to speak for the American Anti-Slavery Society. For the next couple of years he was the leading spokesperson for
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