![]() ![]() ![]() Though a slaveholding state, it contained an unusually large number of free blacks prior to the Civil War.Īs Douglass grew up, he witnessed a reversal of sorts in voting rights in Maryland. Maryland, where Frederick Douglass was born and where he spent his years in slavery, was one of the so-called border states that marked the boundary between North and South prior to the Civil War. Events in History at the Time the Autobiography Takes Place Slavery in Maryland The story spans Douglass’s twenty years in slavery, his success in escaping it, and his initial involvement in the abolitionist movement. ![]() Born of a slave mother and white father (who was probably his master), Douglass tells a powerful tale of the beatings and mistreatment that he observed and endured. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American SlaveĪn autobiography set mainly in Maryland from 1818 to 1838: published in Massachusetts in 1845.ĭouglass’s story is a firsthand account of the brutal treatment and continual oppression of slavery that takes place in a border state in the first half of the nineteenth century.Įvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Autobiography Was Writtenįrederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in the cabin of his grandmother, Betsey Bailey, on Tuckahoe Creek in Talbot County, Maryland, sometime around February of 1818. ![]()
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