Who Was Frederick Douglass?
(Who Was?)

Author

April Jones Prince

Illustrator

Robert Squier

Publication Date

December 26, 2014

Genre / Grade Band

Non-fiction / 4^th − 5^th

Paperback

Description

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man he gave powerful speeches about his experience as a slave. He was so impressive that he became a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the most famous abolitionists of the nineteenth century.

Publication date

December 26, 2014

Classification

Non-fiction

Page Count

ISBN-13

9780448479118

Lexile Measure

850

Guided Reading Level

Publisher

Penguin Workshop