There Was Once a Slave

The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass. With a new foreword by Amber O'Neal Johnston, author and established authority on infusing diverse voices in traditional curricula. You can find her @heritmomblog on Instagram. Read Plunfield Mom's excellent review! This is the story of one of the noblest men in American history—a man who escaped from slavery to become one of the great leaders of his century—a friend of Lincoln and other great statesmen of his generation.  Thirty years before the Civil War Frederick Douglass was a slave—his lot, hard labor in the cotton fields, frequent lashings, a starvation diet, and prayers before breakfast. How Douglass learned to read and taught his fellow slaves; how he planned and finally accomplished his escaped from Maryland to New York and thence to New Bedford is a thrilling and emotional tale. But the story of his long public career, the work he did, the causes he espoused, the friends he made and the positions of trust and honor he filled is one of a