"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"

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This paper explains that, with strength and determination, Douglas rebelled against and overcame slavery; and, in the end, he found the accumulation of material wealth used to justify the atrocities of slavery was an illusion. The author points out that, after his flight to the North, Douglass was amazed to find that Northerners were wealthier than most slave owners in Maryland; he had expected that they would be as poor as the people in the South who could not afford slaves. The paper relates that, by standing up for himself, Douglass became, in his own mind, a man of dignity and courage and earned his place in history as one of the world's greatest men.

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"Isolation from family was one of the many injustices of slavery that Douglass experienced. Frederick's mother was unable to visit her children on a frequent basis because of the distance between the farm where she worked and the slave plantation where the children lived. Frederick did not even learn of his own mother's death until much time had passed. Property division would often separate slave families and after Frederick's grandmother was deemed too old to work, she was evicted from her cabin and sent into the woods to die. Yet another property division would separate Frederick from a black preacher named Charles Lawson who had taken Frederick under his wing and adopted him as his spiritual son. And, to escape to the North, Frederick had to leave behind his friends and his wife who he was not sure if he would ever see again."

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