Product Overview
Author: Prince, April Jones
Series: Who Was?
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Penguin WorkshopBorn into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.Â
