Frederick Douglass: A Period Of My Life

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The things that I 'm really catching onto and just feeling the utmost horror for is the simple things that we 're all aware of but Douglass doesn 't seem to have the slightest clue. Obvious things such as our birthdays... I can tell you mine without even thinking whether you just want the number of the month or the actual month. I can narrow it down to a time frame and tell you what day of the week I was born on, but Frederick Douglass ' guess was as good as the next guy 's. "I have now reached a period of my life when I can give dates" (Douglass 45). When I read that I had to stop and think. I don 't even remember being taught dates. It was probably kindergarten and it was definitely before Frederick Douglass was taught. To go through

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