Frederick Douglass Abolishment Of Slavery

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After learning the meaning of freedom, Frederick Douglass is drawn to the idea of slavery, and is eager to know more about it. Every time the the topic of slavery is introduced, he was alert and ready to listen. of all the conversations he heard one of the words that caught his attention was the word Abolishment, "it was used in such connections as to make it an interesting word to me" ( Douglas, 103). He went on to learn more about abolishment, but was not quite sure what it meant. He did not want to ask knowing that it was a word that was not intended for him to know. He came across the city papers and read about how petitions in the north were "praying for the abolishment of slavery"(Douglass, 104). And from that point on he knew what abolishment

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