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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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