Frederick Douglass Learning To Read And Write Summary

In the article “learning to read and write” by Frederick Douglass, he describes about the challenges that he had when he learned how to read and write. He is an American slave who lived in Master Hugh’s family for seven years. His master’s wife was very kind towards him. She treated him as a human and thought him with some alphabet. But her husband refused her to do so because he did not want Douglass to learn anything. Douglass often found himself regretting with his own existence and he wished that he was death because of his hopeless situation. Douglass learned how to read and write from the boys in the streets. The Irishman advised him to escape away to the north but he pretended not to be interested in what they said because at first he