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discovered Frederick Douglass
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by going down to New Bedford, massachusetts
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and watching this brilliant, young,
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twenty-one-year-old, twenty-two-year-old black guy
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get up and speak at the
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African methodist Episcopal Zion Church in New Bedford,
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and said, "My God, this kid can speak."
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And for the first five, six years of Douglass's public life
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Garrison was like his mentor,
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a father-figure, and an intellectual teacher.
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Look for these Garrisonian tenets when you read the narrative.
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His fourth principle was what he called dis-unionism.