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Who Was Frederick Douglass? (Who Was...?)
Who Was Frederick Douglass - Who Was...? Author:April Jones Prince, Robert Squier (Illustrator) Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom -- and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. — He was so impressive that he ... more »became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.« less