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Frederick Douglass wrote three autobiographies: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" (1845), "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855), and "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" (1881).
he was a former slave who was known to be a very good public speaker...so well in fact that people didnt believe he was a slave he taught himself how to read and write
Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write" was shown to an audience of white males because at the time, many women and slaves were not literate. His purpose in writing this was to show slaves that if they learned to read and write they could better themselves.
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Fredrick learned to read from a women named Sophia.Additional Info: Fredrick was living at a plantation in Maryland with the owner named Hugh Auld. Sophia Auld treated Fredrick as one of her own children so she began teaching him the alphabet and three to four letter words. Sophia was so proud of Fredrick that she went to her husband, Hugh, and expressed her excitement Hugh immediately scolded Sophia say that once a black man learned to read the bible, "It would forever make him unfit for the duties of a slave". Sophia stopped teaching Fredrick and became mean and short tempered with him, snatching books when Fredrick was caught reading. Fredrick didn't give up so he befriended Sophia's sons, bargaining that if he gave them food they would teach him to read. This plan was successful so later Fredrick worked on the streets for money and when he had enough he would buy books to learn from.
He wrote in a Narrative writing however it is difficult to go in depth with his writing style. He was a slave so he did not get a good education and made many spelling errors in his work due to his poor education.
There are no known poems written by Friedrick Douglass. He did, however, write several autobiographies including My Bondage and My Freedom.
I belive he learned to write by knowing how to read.
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Frederick Douglass
Yes, Frederick Douglass was a poet. He was born in 1818 and died in 1895. He was an abolitionist and also taught at a university.