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Frederick Douglass, February 1818 – February 20, 1895

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879

From the Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables: