The Slave Years of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1817 as Frederick Bailey on a farm in Tuckahoe, near Easton town in Talbot County, Maryland. The owner of the farm, Captain Anthony, was Frederick's first master. Frederick's mother, Harriet Bailey, worked for long hours in the fields of Captain Anthony's farm situated twelve miles away from their home. Because of this, Frederick's mother was unable to take care of him and so …showed first 75 words of 1894 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1894 total…reaching New York. He left his chains of slavery and became a free man on that day. His feeling was "like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions" (143; ch.11). Frederick finally changed his name from Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to Frederick Douglass. A new world had opened in front of his eyes. Works Cited: Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Ed. Benjamin Quarles. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960.