Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

A Pathway to Freedom

As an enslaved youth in Baltimore, Maryland, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass had overheard his owner declare that “learning would spoil” the best slave in the world and make him “forever unfit” to be a slave. At that moment, Douglass understood that education was the “pathway from slavery

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