Frederick Douglass letter to Passmore Williamson, 1856 May 1.

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Frederick Douglass letter to Passmore Williamson, 1856 May 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671374129

Letter, in ink, written from Rochester, N.Y., responding to a request for an autographed letter.

2 leaves ; 22 cm., folded to 17 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7965315

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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...

Williamson, Passmore

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