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Who Was Frederick Douglass?
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in or around in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass himself was never sure of his exact birth date.
His mother was an enslaved Black women and his father was white and of European descent.
He was actually born Frederick Bailey (his mother’s name), and took the name Douglass only after he escaped.
Frederick douglass autobiography synopsis definition
His full name at birth was “Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey.”
After he was separated from his mother as an infant, Douglass lived for a time with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey. However, at the age of six, he was moved away from her to live and work on the Wye House plantation in Maryland.
From there, Douglass was “given” to Lucretia Auld, whose husband, Thomas, sent him to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore.
Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. By the time he was hired out to work under Wil