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On September 3, 1838 Frederick Douglass was on the Eastern Shore as a slave doing labor but one night Frederick Douglass decided to disguise himself as a sailor and boarded a ship to New York, that night Frederick was freed. In New York Frederick met a woman named Anna Murray they decided get married and adopt the last name douglass, together they decided to have five children. Frederick, Anna, and their five children were doing fine, but Frederick who was now a famous orator, decided to leave the U.S. and move to Europe and speak in places like Great Britain and Ireland for two years in order to avoid being re-enslaved. When Frederick Douglass returned to the U.S. the Civil War of 1861 had begun. This war was known as “the war between the states”, this is because the Northern side of the U.S. wanted to end slavery, but the Southern side still wanted slavery. This conflict is what began the war. In 1865 the North won and the 13 Amendment passed. This Amendment is what finally put an end to slavery. After the war Frederick decided to send his family to Rochester, New York were Frederick spent the rest of his years