Historical Truth And Imaginati
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass details the life of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, from his birth in Talbot County, Maryland to his speech (as a free man) during an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, on August 11, 1841. The Narrative was written between 1844 and 1845 in Ly ....
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.... truly captures the meaning of slavery. It details many of the traumatic experiences the slaves went through. In chapter one, the first thing we read is the story of Douglass' Aunt Hester being whipped. "He took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked. He then told her to cross her hands....After crossing her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the pu ....
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