Benjamin Banneker
Fredrick Douglass was a former slave, talented writer and outspoken abolitionist. Douglass was a slave from Tuckahoe, Maryland who fled to New York and than later on to Massachusetts. He was born into slavery and was officially sent to a plantation to work at the age of seven. Prior to working in the fields he, as well as other slave children, was raised by an older woman. This was commonplace for the slave families, according to Douglass, "it's a common custom to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frequently, before the child has reached it's twelfth month, it's mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor" (Douglass, 2). A man named Captain Anthony, who was aid to have been Douglass's father, owned Douglass's mother. Due to a series of deaths within his family, which would later include the Captain himself, there were a number of property......
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