Frederick Douglass Reaction Paper

Frederick Douglass’s autobiography is quite interesting. It touches many readers’ heart deeply to learn about slavery and I am not an exception. I learn a lot about slavery through Douglass’s story. To further understand the slave and slavery system, as a reader, I need to study his whole life since he was born as a slave and then escaped from slavery system to become a freeman.
According the autobiography, I understand that slaves’ life were not belong to themselves. They were owned by other people called as the Old Masters. Not only Douglass but also his entire family such as grandmother, his mother and all his siblings and cousins were slaves and belonged to the Old Master. When he was born, Douglass lived with his grandmother and was a
Hugh’s house gave Douglass chance to listen his mistress reading loud of the Bible. That encouraged him to learn how to read. He asked his mistress to teach him reading and upon her kindhearted, she taught him how to spell the alphabets. However, her husband was upset when he knew that. He banned her to teach Douglass anything more because he said that education could ruin the slavery system. Knowledge could help slaves run away from slavery. Especially, when Douglass could read Bible, he was no longer fit to be a slave. Those words enlightened Douglass and gave him a way to end his slavery and take slavery to freedom. Although Mrs. Auld stopped teaching him and was upset whenever she saw Douglass reading, he still found the way to learn more. Reading became his drive and determination. Reading helped him penetrate the crudities of slaveholder and the way they oppressed their slaves by taking away their education. Therefore, his first dream was learn how to read and write. Mrs. Auld gave him the inch, now he would take chances to get the ell. Douglass realized that education was the only way could help him
In 1841, he was invited to present about his abolitionists at a grand anti-slavery established by Mr. Garrison and his friends. He was nervous and trembled when he announced his slavery story. Initially, Douglass didn’t want to join any movements to talk or remind his life as a slave because he was scared of being in the public, his Old Master might discover him and might his whereabouts. However, he was standing in the platform and expressing his feelings and talking about his slavery life. Out of his expectation, the audiences understood and sympathized with him. Douglass was successful to introduce to the world of