He was born a slave, but Frederick Douglass died a freeman and the leader of nineteenth-century African-Americans. He was forbidden to read as a child, yet he wrote three famous autobiographies as an adult. As a high-spirited teenager, he was sent away to be "broken in" to slavery; as a strong-willed young adult, he instead ran away to freedom. He later became an Abolitionist orator, Grand Marshall of Washington, D.C., Consul General to Haiti, and Charge D'Affaires for Santo Domingo.
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