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He was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation and forbidden, on pain of the lash, to learn his letters. Born a slave, forbidden to read—he became the conscience of a nation. He taught himself anyway—and became the most famous Black man in the world: the greatest orator of his age, the adviser of presidents, and the living proof that the color line was a lie. Frederick Douglass escaped bondage at twenty, disguised as a sailor, and spent the next half-century turning his own life into a weapon against the system that made him.