... and reached New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he took the name of Douglass. His career as an abolitionist began dramatically in 1841 at an antislavery convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where his unprepared address to the convention revealed him to be an orator of great expression. As a recent slave he worked with his back, now he was engaged as an agent of the ... in the northern states and his work for the Underground Railroad did much to advance the cause of the abolitionists and made his name a symbol of freedom and achievement among whites and blacks alike. In 1845, Douglass, ...

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