Letter to unidentified correspondent : Port au Prince(?) : ALS, 1890 June 8.

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Letter to unidentified correspondent : Port au Prince(?) : ALS, 1890 June 8.

Written to the granddaughter of some English people who had befriended Douglass during his sojourn in Great Britain in 1843.

[4] leaves ; 21 cm.

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...