Growing up a slave on a southern plantation in the 1800s was a horrible, traumatizing experience. Famous orator Frederick Douglass' childhood as a slave included not knowing his birthday or his age, not knowing his father—who might have been his white master, and only seeing his mother a few times, and only at night, before she died when he was seven.
This list covers vocabulary from "Called thus suddenly away…"—"...their own masters."
Here are links to our lists for the book: List 1, List 2, List 3
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