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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1818. When he was 20 years old he escaped and became an abolitionist. After escaping to freedom he settled in Rochester, NY. There he wrote his three autobiographies Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave in 1845, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. Frederick Douglass also spent sixteen years editing and running a very influential black paper. Frederick Douglass went from being a slave to the leading voice for blacks in the nineteenth century.