Frederick Douglas's Views On Slavery And Freedom

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Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, in February 1818. Though there is no known specific date of his birth, so Douglass himself didn’t even know his own age. His mother, Harriet Bailey, gave him his full name, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. He was separated from his mother at a very young age and went to live with his grandmother. When he was six, he was taken away from his grandmother to go to the Wye House plantation. But a few years later, when the overseer Aaron Anthony died, he was taken to Lucretia Auld, who sent him to work for her husband’s brother Hugh Auld in Baltimore. At about age twelve, Douglass received his first education when Hugh’s wife Sophia started to teach him the alphabet. But her husband was concerned that it would promote thoughts of freedom and was opposed to the education. So soon Sophia came to agree with her husband and stopped the teaching, as well as discouraging his reading. …show more content…
He was determined to learn, so he read anything he could, some of which lead him to challenge the idea of slavery. He found a book at age twelve, titled The Columbian Orator, which he later acknowledged as to what gave him resolution on his views about slavery and freedom.
In later years, he was bought out from the Aulds by William freeland to work at his plantation. Douglass and the other slaves there held a weekly Sunday school, where Douglass began to teach them to read the Bible. The word got around, and more and more slaves came to learn each
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