A Pathway to Freedom
Nov 01, 2020
2 minutes
by Eric Arnesen
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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