Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Genre Literature & Fiction Brodell offers a series of

Brodell offers a series of twenty-eight portraits of forgotten but heroic figures

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Genre Literature & Fiction Brodell offers a series ofFrederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 or 1818. As a young boy, he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored