Essay Archive - Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born in or around 1817 into slavery in
Maryland. He escaped in 1838. He was a great orator and writer, and he was
a leading figure in the abolitionist m movement. He was the son of Harriet
Bailey and an unknown white man. His mother was a slave so therefore he
was born a slave. He was separated from his mother when only a few weeks
old. His grandparents raised him. When he turned eight, he was sent to a
woman who took care of slave children on the plantation of Colonel Edward
Lloyd. When he was nine, he was sent to Baltimore w....
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