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16. However, Frederick continued to seek out (whoever, whomever) would help him become a
better reader.
17. With pieces of bread, he paid white children (who, whom) he met on his errands to teach
him more.
18. He began reading the literature of abolitionists, (who, whom) believed that slavery was wrong
and that enslaved persons should be freed.
19. Frederick dreamed of freedom, inspired by the examples of African Americans in Baltimore,
many of (who, whom) were free people themselves. 
20. Frederick Douglass, (who, whom) equated reading with freedom, eventually escaped from slavery.
21. After Frederick escaped, he took the name Douglass, (who, whom) was a character in a book by
Sir Walter Scott.
22. He began to attend the meetings of abolitionists, many of (who, whom) were white.
23. William Lloyd Garrison, (who, whom) edited the abolitionist paper Liberator, hired Douglass to
speak at anti-slavery meetings.
24. Garrison was a white person for (who, whom) Douglass had a great deal of respect.
25. Douglass’s friends worried about him when he spoke, because he was still an escaped enslaved
person for (who, whom) bounty hunters searched.
26. (Whoever, Whomever) spoke against slavery, whether white or black, was often in danger.
27. Elijah Lovejoy, (who, whom) wrote against slavery for his newspaper, was killed and his
newspaper office burned.
28. No one had to ask (who, whom) he had offended with his ideas.
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