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Frederick Douglass was born on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County and lived as a slave in the St. Michaels area from 1833 to 1836. He taught himself to read and write and conducted clandestine schools for blacks there. After escaping north, he became a noted abolitionist orator and editor. He returned in 1877 as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and also served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds and U.S. Minister to Haiti.
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St. Michaels, Maryland · United States