Young Frederick Douglass: The Slave Who Learned to Read.
Story Stats
Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 6
Author
Linda Walvoord
Girard
Appeared in
Cricket Magazine Vol 25, Num 8, April 1998
Story Summary
A nicely told biographical sketch of a young Frederick Douglass who teaches himself to read, eventually escapes to freedom and becomes a lecturer, journalist and defender of the rights of African-Americans.