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IRLA Black History Month

  • Frederick Douglass was born

  • Inspiration To Escape from Slavery!

  • Escaped. He tried escaping in 1835, didn't work!

  • Attended Anti Slave Meetings - For this one traveled to East and Midwest.

  • Published Book - Narrative of slave life.

  • (Traveled to Great Britain) then safely came home.

  • Was there at first woman's right convention

  • Refuses White Abolitionist John Brown

  • Refuses Garrison - First White Abolitionist he worked with

  • Doesn't want slaves - wants to fight..

  • His first wife passed

  • Married Helen Pitts - White woman

  • Passes away.