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Slavery in Fredrick Douglass
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and influential black leader of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his writings on the punishment and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his books about his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to perceive a clear image of slavery through Douglass' book. His writings explain the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed.
As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was drawn to the wondering mind of Frederick Douglass. …
