Frederick Douglass's Journey to Freedom

Douglass was separated from his mother while still a baby and sent to live with her parents Betsy and Isaac Bailey. He had very little memory of his mother until the age of about seven. As he got older Douglass gradually came to perceive that the cabin that they were living in was not his grandmothers but rather an old master. Douglas faced a dawning understanding that he would at some point be forced to leave his grandmother to begin a life of enslaved labor.