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Frederick Douglass was a slave who later was freed and became a writer. He also gave many speeches about slavery and how every person should be free. He believed everyone should be equal and treated the same.
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Frederick had a mother who was a slave and a father who was a white man. He rarely saw his mother and stayed with his grandparents for most of his life. While living with his grandparents he saw what happened to black slaves and knew it was brutal. His grandparents sent him to Baltimore at the age of 8 to live with a carpenter.
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Frederick was sent back to the country 7 years after he was sent to Boston. He was hired out to an awful man who hurt him constantly. Douglass made a promise to himself that by the end of the year 1836 he would be a free man again.
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Someone had found out his plan and he was put into jail. However two years later in 1838 he would finally flee to New York by train and boat. He settled in Massachusetts with his new bride. He met her in Baltimore and married her in New York.
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Frederick wanted to educate himself and learn how to read. He joined many groups and went to see many people speak about slavery and equal rights for all. But there was one person who stuck out to him William Lloyd Garrison. Frederick looked up to him and Garrison was impressed by him too.
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Douglass and Garrison would eventually begin to have different views and go there separate ways. Frederick considered Garrison one of his great teachers. But he felt the need to preach about what he believed in.
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Frederick continued his path to make African American lives better. He worked with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war to build up the army. After the war he would then fight for both women and African American rights.
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This book is dedicated to Owen Baquero
Created & published on StoryJumper™ ©2025 StoryJumper, Inc.
All rights reserved. Sources: storyjumper.com/attribution
Preview audio:
storyj.mp/acptgz35s2h7
Frederick Douglass was a slave who later was freed and became a writer. He also gave many speeches about slavery and how every person should be free. He believed everyone should be equal and treated the same.
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Frederick had a mother who was a slave and a father who was a white man. He rarely saw his mother and stayed with his grandparents for most of his life. While living with his grandparents he saw what happened to black slaves and knew it was brutal. His grandparents sent him to Baltimore at the age of 8 to live with a carpenter.
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Frederick was sent back to the country 7 years after he was sent to Boston. He was hired out to an awful man who hurt him constantly. Douglass made a promise to himself that by the end of the year 1836 he would be a free man again.
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