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- Frederick was taken from his grandmother when he was eight (1826) and sent to Baltimore, Maryland. Here, he worked as a servant in the house of a shipbuilder.
- Auld’s wife, Sophia began to teach Frederick to read and write. Sophia’s husband found out and made her stop teaching Frederick. It was against the law to teach an enslaved person to read.
- For six months, Frederick took Covey’s beatings. One day he fought back and the fight lasted two hours. After this fight, Covey never tried to beat Frederick again.
- He joined a debate club, where he met Anna Murray (1838), a free Black woman. Anna and Frederick planned his escape. She gave him all of her savings so that he could buy a train ticket.
- Anna joined Frederick in New York and they got married in 1838. They changed their last name to Douglass to protect Frederick because he could still be caught and enslaved. They moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts and had five children. They lived in a community of free black people
- Frederick Douglass’s writing and speaking helped end slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in 1865. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to former enslaved people. In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment gave every male citizen, including Black men, the right to vote.
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