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Frederick Douglass
Enslaved from birth, Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818 to an enslaved mother and presumably her white plantation owner.
Separated from his mother Harriet Bailey at birth, he was raised by his enslaved maternal grandmother, Betsy Bailey, on a different plantation with his siblings and cousins.
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He was only allowed to see his mother four or five times before her death in 1825. As a child, he was loaned out to work at another plantation where the plantation mistress began teaching him to read and write until her husband forced her to stop because slave literacy was prohibited by law.
However, the young Bailey had learned enough to continue to develop his reading and writing skills through his own efforts and as a result, began to understand the connection of his literacy to American conceptions of freedom and human rights, which led to his later career as an abolitionist