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Frederick Douglass Statue
Larger-than-life Frederick Douglass stands in the memorial plaza at the NW corner of Central Park.
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was an influential abolitionist, suffragist, author, editor and diplomat. During his travels after gaining his freedom, he eventually settled in New York, saying “I found myself in the big city of New York, a free man – one more added to the mighty throng which, like the confused waves of the troubled sea, surged to and fro between the lofty walls of Broadway”.
In 1838, he met his future wife and changed his last name to Douglass. In 2011, a bronze statue of the abolitionist leader was unveiled by the Hungarian artist Gabriel Koren.
Today, Frederick Douglass Circle marks the transition from the Upper West Side to Harlem on the northwest point of Central Park.
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