The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

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It was generally assumed that his father was the white owner of the plantation. At the age of 20, Frederick escaped to New York, where he changed his surname to Douglass. Although he could have ...