Who Was Frederick Douglass?
Who Was Frederick Douglass?
Prince, April Jones
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Annotation: Examines the life of the former slave who became a famed abolitionist, orator, and social reformer.
Genre: [Biographies]
 
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Catalog Number: #87644
Format: Perma-Bound Edition
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 2014
Edition Date: 2014 Release Date: 12/26/14
Illustrator: Squier, Robert,
Pages: 105 pages
ISBN: Publisher: 0-448-47911-7 Perma-Bound: 0-605-83224-2
ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-448-47911-8 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-83224-4
Dewey: 921
LCCN: 2014039149
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Subject Heading:
Douglass, Frederick,. 1818-1895. Juvenile literature.
Douglass, Frederick,. 1818-1895.
Abolitionists. United States. Biography. Juvenile literature.
African American abolitionists. Biography. Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements. United States. Juvenile literature.
Abolitionists.
African American abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
Language: English
Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).
Word Count: 7,264
Reading Level: 5.7
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.7 / points: 1.0 / quiz: 172014 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:5.5 / points:5.0 / quiz:Q65312
Lexile: 850L
Guided Reading Level: S

Who Was Frederick Douglass?

Frederick Douglass was born a slave. Just like a horse or a plow, he was the property of a white man. From a young age, Frederick wondered why that was so. Wasn’t he as smart, strong, and deserving of liberty as anyone else?

At the time Frederick was born, in 1818, there were 1.5 million black slaves in the southern United States. Most didn’t learn to read. This was against the law! But Frederick taught himself to read and write.

Most slaves didn’t risk their lives to run away to freedom. This was against the law, too. But Frederick escaped and helped others do the same.


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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.

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