Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery Cover:Paperback When Gramps talks about his

When Gramps talks about his activism and Black history

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Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery Cover:Paperback When Gramps talks about hisThe 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