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Fredrick Douglass Reasons Behind His True Experience As A Slave

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Throughout Fredrick Douglass narrative, Douglass argues against the institution of slavery that lay behind his true experience as a slave. Frederick Douglass was the son of a slave women and an unknown white master, he was born in 1818 and escaped slavery at the age of 20 years. Douglass was thought to read and write by the white master’s wife before the master demanded she stopped, bravely Douglass continued to teach himself. At that time, slaveholders were threatened that literacy would lead slaves to questioning about the “natural state of slavery”. Slaveholders believed slaves were incapable of any education or participating in civil society as a result they should be kept as slaves for whites and whites slaveholder would continue to maintain
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