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and his accomplishments, and why he can be said to have been instrumental in founding early African American society. Discussion Frederick Douglass was a man of extraordinary intelligence and he
knew that if slavery was to end, people had to be aware of its cruelty. Southerners were adept at giving the impression that slaves were "happy darkies," who loved their
masters and were well-treated; the reality was ugly and brutal. In order to tell people what slavery was really like, Douglass wrote the story of his life, called The Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. In it, he told what slavery was really like; the whippings, starvation, poverty, indignity, women raped by their white masters and
so on; he also, without realizing it, made himself something of a celebrity. A few words from his Narrative will tell us what slavery was like; it will also
confirm that Douglass was a very talented writer. He says he has no accurate knowledge of his age since he had never seen a record of it, which was not
unusual for a slave: "By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most
masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant1. Because he has no way of checking his age with any accuracy, and because his master deems him impertinent if
he asks, Douglass stopped asking and estimated his age, which he thought to be between 27 and 28 when he wrote the book.2 He tells readers that his mother was
Harriet Bailey, and that her skin was very dark; then he says "My father was a white man" and he believes that it might even be his master, but he
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