Frederick Douglass Research Paper

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Children and young adults often complain about school; however, they have the freedom to receive a proper education while others are trying to educate themselves to receive freedom. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass, later known as Frederick Douglass after escaping slavery, was born in 1818 in a small Maryland county called Talbot. When Frederick was eight years old, his slave owner’s wife taught him how to read, which later helped his escape to freedom. He then became a lecturer for Anti-Slavery in wake of hearing William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips speak at an abolitionist meeting. Following his publication of “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, he escapes from slave hunters and runs to England.