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There is a Frederick Douglass commemorative train ride from Baltimore to New York going on.  I heard about it on National Public Radio today.  The announcer told me it was commemorating his escape to freedom.   And she said it happened over one hundred years ago.

Yes.  That is technically correct.  That moment in history did happen over 100 years ago.  True.  But that is not as helpful as she think in pinpointing the date of his flight.

But the train ride is commemorating his presumed birth year.  Not his flight.  And, no, he wasn't born into slavery a little over 100 years ago.  No, closer to 200.  Since this is a BICENTENNIAL celebration, NPR.

I double this lady telling me this was even alive in 1976 to remember that bicentennial.