
Who Was Frederick Douglass?
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780448479118
Publication Date: 12/26/2014
Age Range: 8-12 years
Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedomand once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.
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