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"Including his connection with the anti-slavery movement; his labors in Great Britain as well as in his own country; his experience in the conduct of an influential newspaper; his connection with the underground railroad; his relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry raid; his recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. colored regiments; his interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; his appointment by Gen. Grant to accompany the Santo Domingo Commission; also to a seat in the council of the District of Columbia; his appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; also his appointment by President J. A. Garfield to be Recorder of Deeds in Washington; with many other interesting and important events of his most eventful life."

The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, Beginnings to 1920.

Text scanned (OCR) by Aletha Andrew and Susan Huffman. Text encoded by Carlene Hempel and Natalia Smith.

Transcribed from: Life and times of Frederick Douglass / written by himself. His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time ; with an introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin. Hartford, Conn. : Park Publishing Co., 1881. 516 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

African Americans > Maryland > Biography.

African American abolitionists > Maryland > Biography.

Abolitionists > United States > Biography.

Enslaved persons > Maryland > Biography.

Plantation life > Maryland > History > 19th century.

Slavery > Maryland > History > 19th century.

Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.

Enslaved persons > Maryland > Social conditions > 19th century.

Fugitive slaves > Maryland > Biography.

Antislavery movements > United States.

Enslaved persons' writings, American > Maryland.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

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