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Fredrick Douglass
Title: Fredrick Douglass
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1235 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fredrick Douglass
Frederick Douglas
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was written by Frederick
Douglass himself. He was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in approximately 1817. He has,
"...no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (47). He
became known as an eloquent speaker for the cause of the abolitionists. Having himself been kept as a
slave until he escaped from Maryland in 1838, he was able to …showed first 75 words of 1235 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1235 total…how much "gentler" he was by the third rewrite. Published by the Anti Slavery
Committee, it was definitely biased against the slave holder but Douglass seemed to write fairly of his
experiences especially since he was able to relate both good and bad experiences with his slave owners.
Douglass' words sum it up the best, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a
slave was made a man." (107)
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