1. Frederick Douglass
I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell his birthday" (Douglass 13). ... "She was long gone before I knew anything about it I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger" (Douglass 15). ... In the end, the master voluntarily emancipated his slave because he knew it was the right thing to do. ... In New York , Frederick dropped his two middle names and changed his last name to Douglass to avoid capture (Scruggs). ... Ruggles was deeply committed to the abolition movement, and kindly fetched a reveren...
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