a biography of frederick douglass an african american abolitionist social reformer orator writer and Lesson plan for english language arts and literacy, social studies for 3-7, 13 +  frederick douglass was born in 1818, during the time when the abolitionist   at age 12, he began secretly teaching himself to read and write, which was   douglass was the son of a black woman born into slavery, and an unknown white .
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