A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass

I'm surprised no one has pointed out the glaring error in this book. The author incorrectly states, "Eight months after the Confederate army was defeated, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed. Slavery was outlawed." The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. This is......more

A Picture Book of Fredrick Douglas (A Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler, Illustrator Samuel Byrd, Hindi translation by Arvind Gupta- Children’s Illustrated Colour Picture Book- The narrates the story of Fredrick Douglas, an Afro- American who was into slavery in 1818 on a plantation in Maryl......more

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and grew up on a plantation in Maryland. When he was 8 years old, he moved to Baltimore to live as a slave. His owner’s wife taught him the alphabet and he started to learn how to read until her husband stopped her, but that did not stop Douglass from learnin......more

There is an illustration of young Frederick hiding in a closet the first time he hears a slave being beaten, his aunt, and the torture on the boy's face that Samuel Byrd shows almost made me look away. But my ancestors go back almost to Plymouth Rock so i owed to Mr. Douglass (and Byrd and Adler) to......more