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Knowledge: The Most Important Factor In Frederick Douglas's Success
Anyone could list why it is important for someone to be literate. However, besides from the obvious “it is important to know to speak and to read,” there are many instances where knowledge has proven to be everything one needs. Frederick Douglas is an example of this kind of success. Throughout Frederick Douglas’s life, the most important factor to his success was that he learned to read and he learned rhetoric. Its significance is that because of these skills he learned, it led to the doors of his freedom allowing him to be a major success model for the people of

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