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historic secretly restoration witnessedroute leading honoured set granted citizen Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave in the movement that fought to end slavery in the United Stales. He became a ( 1 ) voice in the year before the Civil War. A few weeks ago, the National Park Service (NPS) ( 2 ) Douglass’s birth and Black History Month with the reopening of his home at Cedar Hill, a ( 3 ) site in Washington. D.C. The two-story house, which contains many of Douglass’s personal possessions, had undergone a three-year ( 4 ). (Thanks to the NTS website, however, you don’t have to live in the nation’s capital to visit it. Take a tour online.) He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to a slave mother and a white father he never knew. Douglass grew up to become the first black ( 5 ) to hold a government office — as US minister and consul general to Haiti. As a youth, he never went to school. Educating slaves was illegal in the South, so he ( 6 ) taught himself to read and write. At 21 years old, he escaped from his slave owner to Massachusetts and changed his last name to Douglass, to hide his identity. In the 1850s, Douglass was involved with the Underground Railroad, the system ( 7 ) up by antislavery groups to bring runaway slaves to the North and Canada. His home in Rochester, N.Y. was near the Canadian border. It became an important station on the ( 8 ) , housing as many as 11 runaway slaves at a time. He died in 1895. In his lifetime, Douglass ( 9 ) the end of slavery in 1865 and the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, which ( 10 ) African-Americans the right to vote.
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livingsimilarexceptionwheneversinglehoweveraseventually isolatedsharedwhereverdifferent There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the ( 1 ) of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people ( 2 ) in northern Europe who left their homelands and settled in England. ( 3 ) in their island community, the various tribes used languages which became more and more similar to each other and less and less like the other languages of Europe. ( 4 ), the language had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through their ( 5 ) language. In time, people moved from the small island to many parts of the world, taking their language with them and thus still remaining members of the English speech community ( 6 ) they settled.A speech community is ( 7 ) to other kinds of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side, ( 8 ) they do in the neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. Many nations are composed of a ( 9 ) major speech community. National boundaries, ( 10 ), are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. Some nations are made up of many speech communities. A speech community, then, is any group of people who speak the same language no matter where they happen to live.
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