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             matched the type of wood and the names of these letters. Any boy he met
             that could write he would challenge them to a writing contest.
             Frederick would use the letters he recently learned and told the child
             to challenge that. He then copied the Italics in Webster's Spelling
             Book until he knew them well. All this hard work and years of practice
             gave Frederick the knowledge to write. After his relocation to Mr.
             Freeland, who was the owner of two slaves, Frederick devoted his Sundays
             teaching these two and other slaves how to read.
             Frederick heard the word abolitionists a few times but it wasn't for a
             while until he found out what it meant. If a slave succeeded in
             escaping from his Master or performing a radical action such as burning
             a barn or killing his Master, it was considered to be a form of
             abolition. One day while running an e
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