Today let’s travel deeper in to the world of slavery. We are going to talk about slavery and two very important people Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. These two remarkable people who were born in to slavery found their own freedom, and then made it their life’s mission to help other slaves find their own freedom.
Although Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Tubman lived very different lives they both challenged the life that they were born in to and in that helped countless others along the way. Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Tubman were both born in to slavery in Maryland in the early 1800, although they were born a few years apart slavery was still very common. Frederick Douglass began to learn to read and write at the age of 12 from Mr. Auld’s wife, who was Mr. Douglas second owners wife, she had
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Mr. Frederick did not want to stop learning so he paid other slaves with food to continue teaching him to read and write. Unlike Mrs. Tubman she never learned how to read or write, so she had to rely solely on what people told her. Mr. Douglass made it his life mission to teach other slaves to read and write. So, they could also realize that slavery was bad, but when the other slave owners found out they were very upset and forced him to stop teaching the slaves to read and write. However Mr. Douglass and Mrs. Tubman escaped from slavery; Mrs. Tubman’s owner died and gave her and her two brothers the opportunity to escape although, she ended up making the trip alone because her brothers turned back for fear of being caught. She was given two names and directions to get to the first safe house on the secret underground railroad heading north to Philadelphia where she became a free woman, Mr. Douglass had a little more help then Mrs. Tubman with his escape, a friend by the name of Anna Murry, who later became his wife, gave him a sailors uniform and money to ride the train north to New York where