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The man who will get up will be helped up and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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