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Born enslaved on a Maryland plantation around 1818, Frederick Douglass was forbidden to read — so he taught himself in secret. He escaped at twenty, crossed into freedom with borrowed papers and a borrowed disguise, and spent the next six decades fighting to make America live up to its own promises. He wrote three memoirs, published his own newspaper, stood beside Lincoln during the Civil War, and held offices no Black man had held before. This is the documented story of the foremost abolitionist orator of the 19th century — no myth required.
Born enslaved on a Maryland plantation around 1818, Frederick Douglass was forbidden to read — so he taught himself in secret. He escaped at twenty, crossed into freedom with borrowed papers and a borrowed disguise, and spent the next six decades fighting to make America live up to its own promis...
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