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Frederick Douglass Ignorance
Ignorance as a tool of slavery : This can be appear clearly when Frederick Douglass was eight years old and sent to Baltimore to stay with Auld family and work in their house pay attention to their son Thomas . He request his mistress ( Sophia Auld ) to teach him how to read , then he learnt the alphabet and a few words but when her husband knew that , he stopped her from teaching him by saying that education makes slaves unmanageable . He was thinking that slaves must be kept uneducated to be under his master slave and obeys his master and he was believing that education would make Frederick "unfit . . . to be a slave."

Knowledge as a path of freedom In my opinion , Frederick Douglass desires to learn how to read
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