Title: Love twelve miles long
Description: In 1820s Maryland, Frederick's mother, who is a slave on a different plantation, walks twelve miles each way for a nighttime visit with her son, during which she recounts what each mile of the journey represents. Based on the childhood of Frederick Douglass.
Subjects: Mothers and sons, Childhood and youth, Slavery, Fiction, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction
People: Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)