Fact or Fiction: You Decide! I believe the book, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass is an authentic retelling of his life. It is the story of a boy who was born a slave. He was one of very few who knew how to read and write. He stood up against those keeping him down, such as Mr. Covey. "I now forgot my roots, and remembered my pledge to stand up in my …
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…true example of an American living his dream. WORKS CITED: Carnegie, Andrew. "A Talk to Young Men." Making Connections Ed. Kathleen Gaissler and Kenneth Waltzer. McGraw-Hill: Lansing; 2000. 229-230 Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Dover: New York 1969 Gates, Henry Louis Jr. A Dangerous Literacy: The Legacy of Frederick Douglass. The New York Times Book Review. 28 May 1995. Pg.3 and 16 Jefferson, Thomas. "Declaration of Independence." Making Connections Ed. Kathleen Gaissler and Kenneth Waltzer. McGraw-Hill: Lansing; 2000. 45-47