![]() ![]() ![]() “I wouldn’t have taken that stuff either,” one of your classmates says after school. They cheer when you describe it, as they cheered seconds earlier when you recited Douglass’s famous line: You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man. You’ll end the presentation by saying with passion that Frederick Douglass is your hero, which will not be true because you are only ten and the things you are learning about black history make it difficult to feel good about his life, and sometimes yours.īut feel good about the beating he gave his master. As you work silently, your sister tells you basic facts about slavery and abolition that you will present to your class. ![]() Start gluing the popsicle sticks together to make his body. Leave and return with them a moment later to see that your sister has already cut from the construction paper a circle that will serve as Douglass’s head. It’s one from his later years, when his Afro was white. Smile when she notices you and turns to the pre-marked page with a photo of Frederick Douglass. ![]() Take them to the den, where your thirteen-year-old sister sits at the table thumbing through your schoolbook on black history. Gather scissors, construction paper, crayons, popsicle sticks, and glue. ![]()
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