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Douglass later became a famous abolitionist. He also spoke out for women's rights, and even in this early book, McCurdy's selections show that Douglass' sensitivity to the suffering of women is heartfelt. He makes us imagine how his mother, hired out to work at a plantation 12 miles away, secretly walked to be with her baby in the night ("She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone"). And his greatest rage against the "infernal character" of slavery is on behalf of his grandmother, forced to see her children and grandchildren valued and divided and sold away from her. It was a woman, the wife of one of his owners, who started to teach him to read; later Douglass would teach his fellow slaves.
What a writer. What a person. Read this aloud; discuss it in the classroom. Many kids will go from here to more of Douglass' writing and to other slave narratives. Hazel Rochman
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