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Frederick Douglass: Ten Days of a Fugitive Slave in Buffalo

By Christine Parker - January 29, 2018

In the summer of 1843, Frederick Douglass spent ten days in Buffalo that would help define him as a leading voice of the abolitionist cause.

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