On this episode of Our American Stories, he was separated from his mother, never knew his father, and was forced to compete with dogs for food—but through illicit education and sheer determination, Frederick Douglass broke the mental bonds of slavery before breaking free from his physical chains and forging a path that would change American history forever. Douglass interpreter and poet Nathan Richardson, along with Dr. Joey Baretta of the Civitas Institute at UT Austin, tell the story of this remarkable man—and explain how he became his own man.

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