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Life as a Freeman
Chapter 24
Liberty Attained
Douglass reaches New York, marries Anna, is renamed ‘Frederick Douglass’ by Nathan Johnson in New Bedford, and discovers a free Black community more prosperous than most Maryland slaveholders — before William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator draws him into the abolitionist movement.
Arrival in New York and marriage to AnnaNathan Johnson and the naming after the ‘Lady of the Lake’New Bedford's free Black prosperity, contrasted with slave-state povertyBeing turned away from communion at Elm Street Methodist churchDiscovering William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator