Life and times of Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I.

AUTHOR’S BIRTH.

Author’s place of birth--Description of country--Its Inhabitants-- Genealogical trees--Method of counting time in slave districts-- Date of author’s birth--Names of grandparents--Their cabin-- Home with them--Slave practice of separating mothers from their children--Author’s recollections of his mother--Who was his father?

In Talbot County, Eas...