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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass details the life of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, from his birth in Talbot County, Maryland to his speech (as a free man) during an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, on August 11, 1841. The Narrative was ....

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.... many of the traumatic experiences the slaves went through. In chapter one, the first thing we read is the story of Douglass' Aunt Hester being whipped. "He took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked. He then told her to cross her hands....After crossing her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose. He made her get upon the stool, and tied her hands to the hook.....Her arms were stretched up at their full length, so she stood upon the ends of her toes.....he commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin, an ....