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To: reasonisfaith
Frederick Douglass was never a slave....free born and educated.....never one day in the cotton fields.
12 posted on 01/15/2018 11:43:19 AM PST by mastertex
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To: mastertex
Frederick Douglass was never a slave....free born and educated.....never one day in the cotton fields.

Poppycock.

14 posted on 01/15/2018 11:44:56 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: mastertex

Wrong.


15 posted on 01/15/2018 11:47:18 AM PST by stormer
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To: mastertex

He never worked in the cotton fields because he was born and raised on a plantation in Maryland, not the Deep South.


20 posted on 01/15/2018 12:20:19 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: mastertex
Frederick Douglass was never a slave.

I believe you are mistaken about that.

23 posted on 01/15/2018 12:23:02 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: mastertex

Not only was he a slave, he had been whipped. He’d been rented out, etc. As I recall he was rented out for shipbuilding.


64 posted on 06/26/2020 4:21:11 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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