Frederick Douglass Research Paper

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Frederick Douglass was born in 1808, in Talbot County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He was the son of a slave woman, named Harriet Bailey, and perhaps her white master. His name of birth was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Douglass, like every other slave, had a very difficult life. He was separated from his mother when he was only an infant. His mother would visit him for four or five times during the time she was and at nights only. She would walk twelve miles during the night, so that nobody would notice that she had been there. When Douglass was 7 years old, his mother died, thus, he was sent to live with his grandmother Betsy Bailey for a year. Then, he was sent to Maryland where the wife of his owner used to teach him the alphabet.

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