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Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, had a strong impact on American and African American history through his involvement with the abolitionist movement and the establishment of the abolitionist paper called the “North Star.” As a young slav ....

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... wife) to teach him to read. But Hugh Auld believed slaves should not be educated and stopped the lessons. White playmates helped Douglass, and he soon learned to read well. “At 7, Frederick was sent to his master, Captain Aaron Anthony, at a nearby plantation. There he first met a brother and two sisters. He later recalled sadly that "slavery had made us strangers." (Compton’s Interactive Deluxe 1) At the age of 13 he read “The Colombian Orator”, a book of speeches denouncing slavery and oppression deepened his hatred of slavery. “In 1833 Frederick was sent to work for Auld's brother, Thomas, at a plantation near St. Michael's, ...