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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. -- Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. 1817 was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

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