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Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, near Hillsborough.

He doesn’t know for sure of his age, he has seen no proof and his master

will not inform him. Most masters prefer for their slaves to stay

ignorant. He believes that he was around twenty-seven and twenty-eight

when he began writing his narrative - he overheard his master say he was

about seventeen years of age during 1835. His mother, Harriet Bailey,

was separated from him when he was an infant and she died when he was

seven years old. Frederick鈥檚 father was a white man who could have been

his master but he never found out.

Education was of utmost importance in his life. He received his first

lesson while living with Mr. and Mrs. Auld. Sophia Auld, Frederick鈥檚

"mistress", was very humane to him and spent time teaching him the A, B,

C鈥檚. After he mastered this, she assisted him in spelling three and

four......

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