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Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around in Talbot County, Maryland.

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As was often the case with slaves, the exact year and date of Douglass' birth are unknown, though later in life he chose to celebrate it on February Ecobeaker1 Douglass initially lived with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey.

At a young age, Douglass was selected to live in the home of the plantation owners, one of whom may have been his father. When Auld forbade his wife to offer more lessons, Douglass continued to learn from white children and others in the neighborhood. He read newspapers avidly and sought out political writing and literature as much as possible.

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In later years, Douglass credited The Columbian Cu,ture with clarifying and defining his views on human rights. Douglass shared his newfound knowledge with other enslaved people. Hired out to William Freeland, he taught other slaves on the plantation to read the New Testament at a weekly church service. Interest was so great that in any week, more than 40 slaves would attend lessons.

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Although Freeland did not interfere with the lessons, other local slave owners were less understanding. Armed with clubs and stones, they dispersed the congregation permanently. With Douglass moving between the Aulds, he was later made to work for Edward Covey, who had a reputation as a "slave-breaker.

Eventually, however, Douglass fought back, in a scene rendered powerfully in his first autobiography. After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Covey never beat him again. Douglass tried to escape from slavery twice before he finally succeeded. Douglass married Anna Murray, a free Black woman, on September 15, Douglass had fallen in love with Murray, who assisted him in his final attempt to escape slavery in Baltimore.

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Murray had provided him with some of her savings and a sailor's uniform. He carried identification papers obtained from a Thhe Black seaman. Douglass made his way to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York in less than 24 hours. Anna and Frederick then settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which had a thriving free Black community. There they adopted Douglass as their married name.

Charles and Rosetta assisted their father in the production of his newspaper The North Star. Anna remained a loyal supporter of Douglass' public work, despite marital strife caused by his relationships with several other women. Pitts was the daughter of Gideon Pitts Jr. Their marriage caused considerable controversy, since Pitts was white and nearly here years younger than Douglass.]