A Short Biography of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born in a slave cabin, in February, 1818,
near the town of Easton, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Separated
from his mother when only a few weeks old he was raised by his
grandparents. At about the age of six, his grandmother took him to the
plantation of his master and left him there. Not being told by her
that she was going to leave him, Douglass never recovered from the
betrayal of the abandonment. When he was about eight he was sent to
Baltimore to live as a houseboy with Hugh and Sophia Auld, relatives of
his master. It was shortly after his arrival that his new mistress
taught him the alphabet. When her husband forbade her to continue her
instruction, because it was unlawful to teach slaves how to read,
Frederick took it upon himself to learn. He made the neighborhood boys
his teachers, by giving away his food in exchange for lessons in reading
and writing. At about the age of twelve or thirteen Douglass purchased
a copy of
The Columbian Orator, a popular schoolbook of
the time, which helped him to gain an understanding and appreciation of
the power of the spoken and the written word, as two of the most
effective means by which to bring about permanent, positive change.
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