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Police investigate damage to a Frederick Douglass statue in Maplewood Park Frederick Douglass — American Author born on February 14, 1817, died on February 20, 1895 Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. many Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2020-07-05/police-investigate-damage-to-a-frederick-douglass-statue-in-maplewood-park