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Frederick Douglass lived in this state until he escaped to freedom.
What is Maryland?
Douglass's first master, he was also likely his father.
Who is Captain Anthony?
Douglass's mother, whom he barely knew.
Who is Harriet Bailey?
Persons such as David Ruggles who protested the institution of slavery and helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What are abolitionists?
The slaves' nickname for Mr. Covey because he was known to sneak up on them.
What is the Snake?
Douglass begins his Narrative, "I was born in" this place, "near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county."
What is Tuckahoe?
This mistress began Douglass's journey to learn to read until her husband made her stop giving him lessons.
Who is Sophia Auld?
Douglass's aunt, she was whipped regularly by Capt. Anthony because he was jealous that she loved another man, a slave named Ned.
Who is Hester?
According to slaveholders, teaching this to a slave would make them "become unmanageable, and of no value to [their] master."
What is literacy?
Douglass asserts that "to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make" the slave this so that the slave will "be made to feel that slavery is right."
What is thoughtless (or uneducated)?
When he was around seven, Douglass was sent to live with Hugh and Sophia Auld in this city.
What is Baltimore?
After Captain Anthony's death, his estate was divided between this surviving son and daughter.
Who are Andrew and Lucretia?
Sandy Jenkins, a fellow slave, instructs Douglass to keep this on his right side to avoid being whipped.
What is a root?
According to Douglass, slaveholders in these areas were generally better because they wanted to keep up a good appearance around neighbors who did not own slaves.
What are cities?
During these holidays, Douglass and three other men planned to escape to freedom, but they were captured and put into jail.
What is Easter?
When Frederick made his escape, he first went to this state.
What is New York?
After Lucretia Auld's death, Douglass becomes the property of this man, whom Douglass calls, "cruel but cowardly."
Who is Thomas Auld?
Douglass gives this man "the credit of being the best master [he] ever had, till [he] became his own master."
Who is Mr. Freeland?
Enslaved children, who were still too young to work, were given this clothing allowance for an entire year.
What is two shirts?
Douglass's fellow apprentice calkers in the shipyard attacked him because they feared this.
What is that black freemen were going to take away their jobs?
Frederick spent three years as a freeman in this city before he became a widely known figure in the anti-slavery movement.
What is New Bedford?
Douglass fight back against this overseer, thus ensuring that he would never be whipped again.
Who is Mr. Covey?
Douglass's wife whom he married at the home of abolitionist David Ruggles.
Who is Anna Murray?
After escaping to freedom, Douglass first subscribed to and then later wrote for this abolitionist magazine.
What is the Liberator?
Douglass criticizes this means of escaping slavery because its existence became too public--thereby making slaveholders be even more vigilant in hunting escaped slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?