Who Was Frederick Douglass?

April Jones Prince (A) and Robert Squier (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback - Biography / Abolitionist / Orator - 2014)

Description: Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century. (112 pgs) Ages 8 -12