Frederick Douglass
By Mona Kerby
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Born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, Frederick Douglass never planned to be the most famous black man in the world. He just wanted to be free. “Once you learn to read,” he wrote, “you will be forever free.” By telling his story, Frederick helped change the history of the world. This narrative nonfiction biography is perfect for third through sixth graders and has been revised with historical photographs.
“Written with dramatic immediacy . . . [this biography] brings a strong sense of the great abolitionist and writer . . . As a slave, Douglass secretly learned to read and the power of literacy underlies this biography: Kerby shows how, in writing his story, Douglass affected the lives of untold numbers of Americans.” Booklist
Mona Kerby
Mona Kerby writes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for children. She is a college professor and has been a kindergarten teacher and an elementary school librarian. She has received the Texas Library Association Siddie Joe Johnson Award for outstanding achievement in children’s library service, the Outstanding Teacher Award at Little Elementary School, and the Outstanding Teacher Award at McDaniel College in Maryland where she holds the L. Stanley Bowlsbey Endowed Chair in Education and Graduate and Professional Studies. Her 38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation won the Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award and was nominated to the master lists of the South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award and the Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Award. She has written biographies on Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Samuel Morse, and Beverly Sills. Her books Asthma and Cockroaches were named Outstanding Trade Books for Students in K-12 in Science. Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch won the California Young Readers Award and the Vermont Red Clover Award; was nominated to five state reading award lists in Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee; was named to the Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year List; and received the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award. See www.monakerby.com for more information.
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Frederick Douglass - Mona Kerby
Frederick Douglass
By Mona Kerby
Frederick Douglas. Credit: J.C. Buttre / Wikimedia and The Atlantic Archive
Revised and Updated 2017
MK Publications
Westminster, Maryland
ISBN 978-0-9993790-1-1
Originally published by Franklin Watts in New York
Copyright 1994 by Mona Kerby
ISBN 0-531-20173-2
Review
Written with dramatic immediacy . . . [this biography] brings a strong sense of the great abolitionist and writer . . . As a slave, Douglass secretly learned to read and the power of literacy underlies this biography: Kerby shows how, in writing his story, Douglass affected the lives of untold numbers of Americans.
Booklist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Review
Introduction
1. Early Years
2. Baltimore Slave
3. Field Slave
4. Escape
5. Abolitionist
6. Civil War
7. Final Years
Bibliography
Images
About the Author
Introduction
In the heat of the afternoon, a six-year-old boy and his grandmother reached the end of their 12-mile (19-km) walk. At a big house, the woman turned off the road and headed toward some cabins. Children of all colors ran out to them that were black, brown, copper-colored, and nearly white.
She pointed to the boy’s brother and his two sisters. He had never met them before. Go play,
she said softly.
Instead, the little boy stood alone and watched. Later, one of the children called out, Fed, Fed, grandmamma gone!
He ran to the kitchen. She wasn’t there. He ran to the end of the path. She was gone. Years later, he wrote, I fell upon the ground and wept a boy’s bitter tears.
On that August night in 1824, the little boy curled up in a small kitchen closet and cried himself