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Feb 2024
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Who Was Frederick Douglass?

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Who Was Frederick Douglass?  Join us today as we learn about a man who spent much of his life fighting for the freedom for all men.

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Slade, Suzanne, and Robert McGuire. Frederick Douglass: Writer, Speaker, and Opponent of Slavery. Picture Window Books, 2007.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass

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