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Article: TROUBLED WALK TOWARD EQUALITY; ABOLITIONISTS' FRIENDSHIP SPURRED PUBLIC CHANGE, PRIVATE ANGUISH.(SERIES: Black History Month)(CNY)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2002
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Byline: David Ramsey Staff writer
Frederick Douglass was raised in Maryland as the legal property of a white man, yet in his mind he soared free. He dreamed of the day when no one would own Frederick Douglass, and he believed he stood equal to any man.
Douglass' belief in freedom and his own worth led him to trouble. As a young man, he was beaten for his defiance.
Even later, after Douglass had fled to freedom in the North, he encountered those who failed to understand his demand for equality. In one chapter of the Douglass story, he clashed with the anti-slavery crusader William Lloyd Garrison, who struggled for decades to accept Douglass' ...