Frederick Douglass: A Slave And Becoming A Free Man

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I am about to talk about a very famous man who went from being a slave, and becoming a free man. He is a man that had a very interesting life. When he was young he had a terrible life from the day he was born. Yet during his years of being a slave, he was taught how to read and managed to escape his owner. He was the first slave fugitive to speak out against slavery. The man I am talking about is a man called Frederick Douglass. I stated this in the first paragraph, but Frederick Douglass didn’t have the best childhood. He was born from a slave mother and a white father, so he was criticized from that. Since he was born he was taken from his mother almost instantly and sent to live with his slave grandmother. When he was the age of 6 he