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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom decor My Love offers solace inBy David W. Blight **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**Extraordinarya great American biography (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (18181895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to