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The Fugitive's Song, 1845 sheet music cover

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The cover of this sheet-music shows a fictionalized and inaccurate version of the escape from slavery of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), who actually fled by ship.
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1845
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The African-American Mosaic: Abolition

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