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    A life to remember

    Feb 08, 2020 2 minutes
    Edited by Dr Martha McGill reviews@historyscotland.com

    Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846: Living an Antislavery Life

    Alasdair Pettinger

    Edinburgh University Press, 2018

    376 pages

    Hardcover, £80.00

    ISBN: 9781474444255

    ‘I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it’. The opening lines of Frederick Douglass’s 1845, 1881).

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