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Frederick Douglass: A Brief Summary

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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery on the eastern shore of Talbot County, Maryland. His date of birth is unknown since they didn’t keep records back then, but he adopted February 14 as his birthday and his mom called him “ my valentine’’. He lived in Holmes Hill Farm for seven years with his mother Harriet Bailey and his father Aaron Anthony. When Frederick was about eight he got separated from his family and got sent to the Why House plantation, also known as the Great House. The owner was very wealthy and owned 1,000 slaves who worked in the fields. Although Douglass was too young to work in the fields, he worked driving up the cows, cleaning the yard, and running errands. This is where he first learned of the brutal ways the slaves
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