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Sermon text: Romans 6:15-23
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Sometime during the month of February, probably in the year 1818, Fredrick Douglass – a name you might recognize from American history – was born in Maryland as a slave. During his childhood he bounced around from master to master, living a childhood filled with varying levels of hardship due to slavery. The wife of one of his owners taught him the alphabet and a few basics of language, and over the next few years, Douglass taught himself to read and write. Literacy opened his eyes to a wealth of knowledge and information, and in his autobiography he writes how he began to dream of freedom. Eventually, Douglass did escape and is today remembered most famously as a leader in the American abolitionist movement, a skilled public speaker, and a diplomat, working tirelessly for the freedom of slaves and rights for the slaves after they had been set free.
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