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Taught Frederick Douglass to read when he was a slave



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Douglass credits Hugh's wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. From there, he taught himself to read and write. By the time he was hired out to work under William Freeland, he was teaching other enslaved people to read using the Bible

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