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Brief Summary: The Life Of Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1818 with the given name of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was separated from his mother when he was an infant and lived with his grandmother. When he was seven he went to the Wye House plantation, separated again from his family. Frederick's mother died when he was ten. Frederick escaped by hopping on a train to the Northern cities when he was twenty. Before that, he had tried to escape and failed two times. He sent word to his love, a free black woman named Anna Murray, and they were married eleven days after he ran away. After they married, they adopted the surname Johnson to avoid attention. They met Nathan and Mary Johnson later and he decided to change his surname again. He asked Nathan
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