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Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Douglass into the international spotlight as the foremost spokesman for American blacks, both freed... read more
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In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that county, there is a small distinct of county, thinly populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, desert like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague fever.
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