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The "lame to fame" stories of artists, singers, and other celebrities are told over and over again. When someone hears the phrase people assume that it's a rapper from the projects or some trailer trash pop singer, but those can't hold a single candle to the rise of Frederick Douglass. A slave born child from a broken (and shrinking) family, owned and moved from owner to owner and he had to learn from the streets (literally). Life wasn't easy for this kid, but as time went on, his knowledge grew, and his ambition for abolition sparked, he would find his place in history as one of the greats.
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (before he changed it) was born on February in 1818, in the town of Tuckahoe (funny story… Tuckahoe was named that because some farmer took another farmer's hoe. Get it? "took a hoe", Tuckahoe) in Talbot county on the eastern shores of Maryland. Long after that however, Douglass died of a massive heart attack on February 20, 1895 in Washington, D.C. (kind......

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