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Henry Louis Gates argued that this author studied camera obscura after James McCune Smith challenged him to be a “Representative American Man.” This author quoted a James Greenleaf Whittier poem repeating “gone, gone, sold and gone” to discuss the “utter loneliness” of his grandmother. (20[1])This author quoted from (20[1])Matthew 25 (“chapter 25”) after receiving food from Nathan Johnson in a book that Angela Davis discussed in (*) “Lectures on Liberation.” (10[2])As a child, this author bartered bread for literacy lessons (10[1])from other (10[1])children (10[6])before (10[1])acquiring (10[7])The Columbian (10[2])Orator. A fight between Edward Covey and (10[1])this (10[1])author (10[3])is depicted in a book (10[1])with an (10[1])impassioned forward by William Lloyd Garrison. (10[1])For 10 points, My Bondage and My Freedom (10[1])is a slave narrative by what abolitionist? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Frederick Douglass [or Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey]
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2024 PACE NSC06/08/2024Y36100%6%0%87.14