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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1206 words (4.82 pages) in the essay titled Frederick Douglass David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave,Written by Himself (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martian’s Press, 1993) Frederick Douglass was one of the most prominent figures of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglass engaged in a tour of lectures, and became recognized as one of America s first great black speakers. David W. Blight, an associate professor of history and black studies at Amherst College, offers an edited version of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography that was first published in 1845. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, near the town of Easton in Talbot County. Douglas’s’ mother, Harriet Baily, worked the cornfields surrounding Holmes Hill. He knew little of his father except that the man was white. As a child, he had heard rumors that the master, Aaron Anthony, had sired him. Because Harriet Baily was required to work long hours in the fields, Frederick had been sent to live with his grandmother, Betsey Baily. At age 6, Douglass was taken to his master Captain Anthony on the Lloyd Plantation, where he was given little clothing or anything else. He and the other slave children were fed cornmeal mush that was placed in a trough, to which they were called. Frederick later wrote like so many pigs (p. 54). Douglass was later chosen live Hugh Auld, the brother of his master’s son-in-law, w... |
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