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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into slavery, young Frederick dreams of the day he and his people will be free. Yet until that day comes, his only escape is through the books he reads, which take him to worlds far from his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Description
Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book recreates in detail the background and early life of Frederick Douglass, "the gadfly of America's conscience", and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century black Americans. This highly regarded biography traces his life and times from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene. At the time of Douglass' death in 1895,...
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Realizing that the ability to read and write could be a step to freedom, young Frederick requested that his mistress, Sophia Auld, teach him to read along with her own five-year-old son, and she did until she learned that it was illegal to teach a slave to read.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1820s Maryland, Frederick's mother, who is a slave on a different plantation, walks twelve miles each way for a nighttime visit with her son, during which she recounts what each mile of the journey represents. Based on the childhood of Frederick Douglass.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--