Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, popularly known as Frederick Douglass, diplomat, abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman, formerly enslaved, died from a heart attack in 1895 at his Anacostia home in Washington, DC.  He had addressed a meeting of the National Council of Women earlier that day.
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