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security and safety for himself and his family, even though at that point, his legal freedom was purchased that very year by his british friends. he would no longer have to live as a fugitive slave. but rochester was to a degree an enclave of anti-slavery neighbors. he is in at this point the 15th year of editing the longest lasting black anti-slavery newspaper ever, then known as "douglass monthly." earlier known as "the north star." he travels constantly as the singlemost sought afte...

single most sought after orator in the land. he is at this point in 1862, the author and in many other anti-slavery newspapers, hundreds of hundreds of speeches, some of which are already regarded as the rhetorical master pieces of american reform and of abolitionism. he is the author of two auto biographies. the first published in 1845. already a classic by the 1850s through multiple editions, a best selling book by any measure in the 19th century. and ten years later, a second book "...