... spoken, highly descriptive author. His fluency with the English language was superb and, without a doubt, collegiate level. After reading his book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, one would believe Douglass to be a highly educated man. The reality is, at the time Narrative was written, Douglass was a 27 year old escaped slave. Douglass was self educated, having no formal educational training. I was personally ... grandmother on the outskirts of the plantation- (p. 52) This was not a single occurrence, as Douglass stated "I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by...

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