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Frederick Douglass

Birth

Saturday Feb 14, 1818
Maryland, U.S.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. The plantation was between Hillsboro and Cordova; his birthplace was likely his grandmother's cabin.


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