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The Most Sacred Right (2020)

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A Man, Homeless, Shelterless, Breadless, Friendsless and Moneyless

Frederick Douglass wrote to his intended wife after arriving in New York. Anna Murray was a free black woman, born on the eastern shore only about three miles from where Fred was born. They were married in the home of David Ruggles, who was the African-American local leader of the New York variation of the Underground Railroad.

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