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Douglass Begins to Understand Slavery

At the age of six, Frederick Douglass was delivered to his master’s home on Maryland’s eastern shore, to begin his life as a slave. His first experience of slavery — watching his aunt being brutally beaten — would haunt him to his grave. "It was the bloodstained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery," he would later write.

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