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Which best explains why historians are uncertain of the year of Fredrick Douglass birth?

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I'm pretty sure I might be wrong. He was a Runaway slave who taught himself to read and write and doesn't know the year he was born because he was sold.I'm probably wrong but I tried.
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Slaves had no way to keep track of such records.

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