Letter signed : Washington, D.C., to James L. Dalzell, 1885 June 29.

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Letter signed : Washington, D.C., to James L. Dalzell, 1885 June 29.

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Saying that he cannot be present at a reunion in Caldwell.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Dalzell, James L.,

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...