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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass


On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland,
Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. Frederick was raised in a house on
the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like
many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a young child he
would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts
frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In
1836, Frederick had finally had enough of his imprisonment, and attempted an
escape with many other slaves. The escape was not successful, Frederick and the
other slaves were sent to work in a shipyard hauling crates. Frederick worked
the shipyard for two years until he had another great escape idea, this one
would work though. The sailing papers of a sailor had been borrowed, and
disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford,
Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took......


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