Learning How to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas
Learning How to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas
Learning How to Write and Read by Frederick Douglas essay, is base on this little boy (Douglas) who was born slave. On his essay Douglas describes, how he teach himself in many ways how to read and write by stealing newspapers, copying his master handwriting, trading food for books with the poor street boys whom became his teachers. He talks about how wonderful nice and kind his mistress was at the beginning and how she started teaching him the alphabet an how she stops when her husband forbade her to instruct him because it was unlawful and unsafe to teach a slave how to read. Douglas mention on the essay the words he heard from his master telling to his mistress “…if you give a nigger and inch they will take the ell” (chapter VI)
Douglas knew that his masters wasn't happy for him learning how to read and this fact inspired him with determination to learn. At some point he express that learning how to read was a curse rather than a blessing and he found himself envying the stupidity of the ignorance of his fellow slaves because that ignorance keep them away from being unhappy which was one of the things his master said could happen if he learn to read.
Douglas also got to the conclusion that knowing how to write and read will no making free, he felt that the more he read the more he was filling his heart and soul with so much hate to his slavers.
When Douglas learned how to read, got to the point of having a terrible view of his miserable and unhappy life and he discover himself wishing his own death, but even then he never stop himself from learning, when he felt that hopelessness filling of slave for life, he find new objectives.
Douglas repeatedly heard the word abolition but didn't knew the meaning, he look it up on the dictionary but didn't give him a good description of the word which make him keep looking and notice that the word was always associated with the word slaves, which make him
Learning How to Write and Read by Frederick Douglas essay, is base on this little boy (Douglas) who was born slave. On his essay Douglas describes, how he teach himself in many ways how to read and write by stealing newspapers, copying his master handwriting, trading food for books with the poor street boys whom became his teachers. He talks about how wonderful nice and kind his mistress was at the beginning and how she started teaching him the alphabet an how she stops when her husband forbade her to instruct him because it was unlawful and unsafe to teach a slave how to read. Douglas mention on the essay the words he heard from his master telling to his mistress “…if you give a nigger and inch they will take the ell” (chapter VI)
Douglas knew that his masters wasn't happy for him learning how to read and this fact inspired him with determination to learn. At some point he express that learning how to read was a curse rather than a blessing and he found himself envying the stupidity of the ignorance of his fellow slaves because that ignorance keep them away from being unhappy which was one of the things his master said could happen if he learn to read.
Douglas also got to the conclusion that knowing how to write and read will no making free, he felt that the more he read the more he was filling his heart and soul with so much hate to his slavers.
When Douglas learned how to read, got to the point of having a terrible view of his miserable and unhappy life and he discover himself wishing his own death, but even then he never stop himself from learning, when he felt that hopelessness filling of slave for life, he find new objectives.
Douglas repeatedly heard the word abolition but didn't knew the meaning, he look it up on the dictionary but didn't give him a good description of the word which make him keep looking and notice that the word was always associated with the word slaves, which make him