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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was the representative of Haiti at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Image (of Douglass): Chicago History Museum

Frederick Douglass's Defiant Stand at Chicago's World's Fair

Daniel Hautzinger

Although Frederick Douglass did not know his official birth date, he celebrated it on February 14. Late in his life, he spent a year in Chicago serving as the most prominent advocate for African Americans in a World's Fair that largely excluded them.
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