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ST. MICHAEL'S, MARYLAND

by John Galluzzo

Needless to say, St. Michaels was a far different place when Frederick Douglas, the great African-American abolitionist orator passed through it. At that time, he was a slave, bound to servitude. But he was one of the lucky few that escaped those bonds, and fled from the Eastern Shore.

Escape from the Eastern Shore? It seems impossible today that those words could be used in the same sentence.

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