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Elizabeth Keckley

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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What Is It All About?

At 32 years of age, lizzie received a proposal of marriage from a free black man whom she'd known quite a number of years back home in virginia. She went to mister garland and asked him if she could buy her freedom from him and her sons. Frederick douglas, a famous orator famousex ave, had bought his own freedom this way. It wasn't a real offer of freedom? No, not at all at all.

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