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image captionFrederick Douglass visited Scotland twice to campaign against slavery
A bid is being made to mark the 175th anniversary of an anti-slavery campaigner s visit to the Borders.
A plaque and mural could be put up in Hawick in honour of a speech Frederick Douglass made there in November 1846.
The group Borders Against Racism has applied to the town s common good fund to support the move.
If successful, it would also hold a series of talks and produce an educational pack for schoolchildren in the area.
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818 but escaped to become a prominent abolitionist.