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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around February 1817 or 1818, near Baltimore Maryland. As a slave, there never were birth records. The date is en estimate, based on the note of the first family to own him.
In 1838 he was finally able to escape, making his way to Massachusetts, where he became famous as an orator and writer for abolishing slavery.
When Douglass died in 1895, Ida B Wells, the journalist and educator, gave the eulogy. The high school on the hill overlooking the plaza is named in her honor.
What they both would not approve, is what the area is now being used today.