Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery Cover:Paperback Real-life accounts drive the narrative

Real-life accounts drive the narrative

Black names and Black joy

Published:November 7

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Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery Cover:Paperback Real-life accounts drive the narrativeThe story of the African American abolitionist who, in one dramatic incident, discovered the meaning of freedom. Born into slavery young Frederick dreams of the day he and his people will be free. Yet until that day comes, his only escape is through the books he reads, which take him to worlds far from his own. When a menacing overseer named Covey sees that Frederick is different from the others, he sets out to "break" the young reader. But