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Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Douglass explains his life as a slave and how he uses his education and remarkable ability of speaking to influence the freedom of all slaves. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland and was taken away from his mother, Harriet Bailey, at a young age. His father was a white man who could have been his master but he never found out for sure. Although Douglass has no real proof of his age, he believes he was around twenty- seven or twenty-eight when he began writing his narrative. Douglass had two masters during his years as a slave, the first of who was known as Captain Anthony. This master had an overseer named Mr. Plummer who watched over the slaves. Douglass describes Plummer as “a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster” (41). The slaves on Anthony’s farms received a small monthly allowance of food and so little clothing that children often had to run around naked. No beds were supplied, only coarse blankets. Mr. Severe, another one of Anthony’s overseers, was a cruel and douglass, slaves, slave, mr, man, began, life, education, read, narrative, frederick, years, two, time, slavery, slaveholders, out, masters, master, made, just, douglass’s, auld, am, whipped, very, through, teach, severe, plantation, others, old, never, important, however