“I am your fellow man, but not your slave, Frederick Douglass.”
This is the story of self-education, self-emancipation, overcoming adversity, bad and good luck, and the abolitionist cause.
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick is ripped from his mother, never knows his father, but quickly realizes the power of literacy. Against the odds, the Baltimore-living youth teaches himself to read and write behind his master’s back.
But despite his evident naturally intelligence, he’s soon sent back to the plantations of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Frederick endures the worst of slave life as he’s beaten weekly by “slave-breaker” Edward Covey. This only comes to an end when Frederick daringly stands up for himself, incredibly breaking the slave-breaker.
The audacious young man goes to the plantation of the much kinder William Freeland, but is nonetheless determined to have his freedom, damn the consequences. And those consequences can be great. Caught runaways are often sold to even greater miseries farther south. Godspeed, Frederick--we’re rooting for you.
8: From Independence to NY (meeting A. Ham, Nathan Hale & Charles Lee is a Sneaky Bastard)
7: An Olive Branch Rejected, Tom's a Royal Pain(e), & the Siege of Boston
6: "The Shot Heard Round the World"
5: "Delenda est Bostonia:" a Congress, Paul Rides, & the First Shot at Lexington
4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party
3: "Clean My Sh*t House!" The Boston Massacre
2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes
1: That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War
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