Frederick Douglass Autobiographies

Douglass wrote several autobiographies. He described his experiences as a slave in his lifetime autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, an American Slave, which became a bestseller and influential in supporting icon, as did the second, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). After the Civil War. Douglass was about twelve years old, some woman name Sophia started teaching him his abc’s although the state Maryland had a law that prohibited teaching slaves to read. Douglass described her as a kind and tender-hearted woman that gave her heart to who treated her with kindness boy the way one human being ought to treat another human being. During 1818 he lived with his grandmother her name was Betty Bailey When douglass was young he lived in a home on a plantation owners one of them was his father. His mother died with his was 10.

William Freeland, he taught other slaves on the plantation to review the new testament at a church they attend weekly there interest was beyond great that there was 40 or more slaves would attend the lessons even though Freeland did not interfere with lessons other slaves owners were less understanding. Douglass was moving between the Aulds he soon worked Edward Covey who background was known as "slave breaker" Douglass fought back in a scene rendered powerfully in his very first autobiography after sadly losing physical confrontation with Douglass. Frederick tried to escape from the slavery trade twice before he succeeded. He was assisted in his final attempt by this woman Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore. On September 3, 1838 got on a train to harve de Grace, Maryland Anna had provided with some money soon he was in New York in less than 24