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HOW A SLAVE GOT SAVED AND HOW OTHERS CAN TOO

Frederick Douglass was an ex slave who became one of America’s greatest social reformers, abolitionists, orators, writers, and statesmen. In my opinion, by virtue of character, contributions and accomplishments he counts among the truly great men who have ever lived. Certainly he ranks, along with Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver as foremost among black Americans living or dead. The following is an excerpt from the autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.