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Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled in New Bedford, Mass., an anti-slavery stronghold, and got his first job as a dockworker. His enthusiasm for being able to work as a free man is infectious: I was now my own master — a tremendous fact — and the rapturous excitement with which I seized th…