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"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant."So begins the now-classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts...
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The Haitian Revolution paved way for the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and subsequently for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. This book looks at the political, economic, and racial issues surrounding the revolution and the wave of revolts elsewhere in the French Caribbean.