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MARYLAND MANUAL 51 neker (1731-1806) portrait painter Joshua Johnston (active 1796-1824), the churchman Daniel Coker, the nineteenth century abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Frances E. W. Harper, the free-born poetess of Balti- more who devoted her life to poetry and lecturing against slavery. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were both born into slavery on the Eastern Shore. Douglass distin- guished himself as an abolitionist orator, editor, defender of equal rights for women, adviser to five Presidents of the United States and as U.S. Minister to Haiti. Harriet Tub- man whose extradordinary courage as an "underground rail- road" conductor earned her the honorific "Moses of her people," made some nineteen trips into slave territory to lead to freedom over 300 slaves including her aged parents. She also rendered distinguished service as a nurse, scout and spy during the Civil War. In the twentieth century, Maryland has produced a num- ber of outstanding scholars, businessmen, musicians and legislators. Matthew Henson is remembered as the co- discoverer of the North Pole with Admiral Robert E. Peary. Thurgood Marshall serves as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Parren J. Mitchell is the first Black member of the United States House of Representa- tives to be elected from Maryland. |
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