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Douglass and white supporters



            such as William Lloyd Garrison,




            and also Harriet Beecher Stowe,



            the published the best antislavery



            novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Fredrick




            Douglass was a slave born man



            who escaped his owner in 1838 and



            moved to Massachusetts. While




            there Douglass would be attending                                                                                            and give words of  wisdom to one



            meetings of  the abolition movement                                                                                          another.  During  these  meetings




            where he would be exposed to the                                                                                             Douglass would share stories about



            writings of  William Lloyd Garrison.                                                                                         what it was like to be a slave and




            The two would eventually meet                                                                                                the struggle he had to go through



            and discuss each others thought                                                                                              to escape. Garrison would later
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