Chapter I
'I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.' Speculation that his father was his master.
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From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Narrative opens with Douglass's lack of knowledge of his own birthday and his separation from his mother, emblematic of slavery's destruction of family.
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