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Frederick Douglass

Douglass delivered a speech in Elmira

1840
Elmira, New York, U.S.

In 1840, Douglass delivered a speech in Elmira, New York, then a station on the Underground Railroad, in which a black congregation would form years later, becoming the region's largest church by 1940.


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