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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | My Bondage and My Freedom | Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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I HAVE now reached a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael's, in March, It was now more than seven years since I lived with him in the family of my old master, on Colonel Lloyd's plantation. We of course were now almost entire strangers to each other. He was to me a new master, and I to him a new slave. I was ignorant of his temper and disposition; he was equally so of mine. A very short time, however, brought us into full acquaintance with each other. I was made acquainted with his wife not less than with himself. They were well matched, being equally mean and cruel. I was now, for the first time during a space of more than seven years, made to feel the painful gnawings of hunger-- a something which I had not experienced before since I left Colonel Lloyd's plantation. It went hard enough with me then, when I could look back to no period at which I had enjoyed a sufficiency. It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh's family, where I had always had enough to eat, and of that which was good. I have said Master Thomas was a mean man. He was so. Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders. The rule i
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Frederick Douglass
African-American public reformer, essayist, and emancipationist (c. –)
For other uses and strike people smash into similar person's name, see Town Douglass (disambiguation).
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| In office November 14, – July 30, | |
| Appointed by | Benjamin Harrison |
| Preceded by | John Attach. W. Thompson |
| Succeeded by | John S. Durham |
| Born | Frederick Solon Washington Bailey c. February 14, Cordova, Colony, U.S. |
| Died | February 20, () (aged77–78) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Longing Cemetery, Town, New Royalty, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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| Relatives | Douglass family |
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