Category: Douglass and Resilience

“The first step had been taken. Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch and n precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.” 
 
In other words, you give someone an inch they will take a …

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Passage: “The plan which I adopted, and the one by which I was most successful, was that of making friends of all the little white boys whom I met in the street. As many of these as …

Part A: “If a slave ran away and succeeded in getting clear, or if a slave killed his master, set fire to a barn, or did anything very wrong in the mind of a slaveholder, it was spoken of as …

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When reading Fredrick Douglass ” Learning To Read” autobiography he showed a lot of persistence in learning the skill to read. Fredrick went through many trials to even be able to learn. He used the environment he was …

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“I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that i should have killed myself, or done something for which i should …

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“I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. ‘You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a …

Part A: “In this dialogue, the whole argument in
behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was
disposed of by the slave. The slave was made to say some very smart as
well as impressive …

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               In the auto biography “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass there was a part that stood out to me. In the end of the 6^th paragraph Douglass refers to a book he read called …