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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant, during which time he learned to read and write. Douglass became a field hand and a caulker of ships before managing to flee in 1838 to New York and then New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass. To counter skeptics who doubted he had been enslaved, Douglass wrote the first of three autobiographies in 1845.
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Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, statesman and key leader in the abolitionist movement. After his escape to freedom as an adult, Douglass in 1845 wrote the first of his three autobiographies, titled The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The book was a best seller, and greatly influential in promoting the cause of abolition.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant, during which time he learned to read and write. Douglass became a field hand and a caulker of ships before managing to flee in 1838 to New York and then New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass. To counter skeptics who doubted he had been enslaved, Douglass wrote the first of three autobiographies in 1845.
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