Frederick Douglas 2

Title: Frederick Douglas 2
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Frederick Douglas 2

Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on The Holmes Hill Farm just outside the town of Easton Maryland. His mother worked long hours in the corn fields surrounding the farm and he knew very little about his father except that he was white. Frederick last saw his mother at the age of seven when he was then taken to a new plantation near Baltimore to work for Hugh and Sophia Auld, a relative …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 610 total…cities trying to sell subscriptions. He later started his own antislavery news paper which spook out against the racial prejudice he found in the north. Although Frederick Douglas was born into slavery in the south, he lived to become one of the most influential figures in African American history and his actions had a great effect on the society of that time. On February 20, 1895 Frederick Douglas passed away after a heart attack at age seventy-seven.

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