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Frederick Douglass

You're Dead to Me

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Paying for Reading Lessons With Bread

Frederick Douglass was beaten by a slavebreaker at the age of 16. He resolved to resist and fight back, starting a Christian Saturday school for other enslaved people. "I'm blown away by just how kind of impressive at that stage the young Frederick Douglass is," Emily says.

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