History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1844 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Douglass
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The idea
Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland in eighteen eighteen, escaped to New York in eighteen thirty-eight, and settled at New Bedford, Massachusetts.
In practice
His Narrative published in eighteen forty-five, naming the White people who had brutalised him.
Where people slip
For publishing at all, and for naming them, Douglass fled the country to avoid being murdered.
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