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Abolitionist #author, orator and statesman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is well-known for his #speeches, #autobiography, and other works addressing the issue of slavery in the #UnitedStates in the 19th century, but, in 1853, he wrote his only work of fiction – the novella 'The Heroic Slave' – based on the Creole Mutiny/Creole Rebellion of 1841 and its leader, Madison Washington.

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Abolitionist #author, orator and statesman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is well-known for his #speeches, #autobiography, and other works addressing the issue of slavery in the #UnitedStates in the 19th century, but, in 1853, he wrote his only work of fiction – the novella 'The Heroic Slave' – based on the Creole Mutiny/Creole Rebellion of 1841 and its leader, Madison Washington.

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