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    Mar 24, 2020 3 minutes

    FRESH FACES

    n February 11, 2020, a ceremony in the Old House of Delegates Chamber of the Maryland State Courthouse in Annapolis, Md.—the country’s oldest standing state house—welcomed bronze statues honoring the courage and determination of two legendary Maryland heroes: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) and Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross). Douglass was born to an enslaved mother in 1818 in Cordova, Md., but escaped at age 20 to Philadelphia and became one of the country’s great abolitionist-orators and writers. Harriet Tubman was born to enslaved

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