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# Frederick Douglass and the Movement for Liberation 

By [Caleb O. Brown](https://www.cato.org/people/caleb-o-brown) 

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Famed orator, abolitionist, and writer Frederick Douglass was one of history’s greatest champions of individual liberty and equal rights.

Robert McDonald is an Assistant Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. This lecture was recorded on July 27, 2011 at Cato University in Annapolis, Maryland.

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