What would you say freedom means to Frederick Douglass?

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personal was very much political. It wasn't enough for him that he should be free;
everyone must be. Once he finally achieved freedom for himself, therefore,
he didn't simply get on with the business of living his own life; he devoted himself to helping
others, tirelessly campaigning on behalf of those still compelled to endure the degradation of
forced servitude.

With remarkable prescience, Douglass understood that the
cause of abolition was indissolubly linked to other emancipatory movements, such as the women's
rights movement. It says a lot about Douglass' commitment to freedom that he was one of the few
men to attend the 1848 Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, an event that has
gone down in history as the formal beginning of organized efforts to achieve female equality in
the United States.

Above all, freedom for Douglass meant freedom from fear,
which would become the fourth of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms in the
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