The Civil War in Primary Resources: An Exhibition by the Special Collections Library
 

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Creation Date

1883

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Born a slave ca. 1817, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey escaped from Maryland in 1838 to become the national figure of the abolitionist movement known as Frederick Douglass. This is one of three autobiographies written by Douglass first published in 1881 and revised in 1892.

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Keywords

Reconstruction, Blacks, African Americans, Abolitionists

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