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The Columbian Orator
Douglass describes teaching himself to read by trading bread for lessons from white boys in the streets of Baltimore, discovering speeches on liberty in a schoolbook called The Columbian Orator, and inventing his own method for learning to write.
Trading bread for reading lessonsThe Columbian Orator and its speeches on libertyGrowing understanding of the word "abolition"Teaching himself to write using shipyard timber marks