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Frederick's The Columbian Orator

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Around the age of 16, Frederick began writing ‘The Columbian Orator’ which spoke and clarified his views and told everyone what human rights are and how they are equal to both white and black. He taught other enslaved people on the plantation to read and write at a weekly church service. This became so good that more than 40 slaves showed up for his services. The plantation owners worried that Frederick’s service was becoming a small army, so they came to the service with clubs and stones then stopped the congregation permanently. Frederick was moved to Edward covey’s plantation. Edward was known as the “slave-breaker”. He nearly broke Frederick psychologically, but Frederick fought back in a sense in his autobiography.
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