1.After the young Douglass loses his mistress as his teacher, what strategies does he practice to continue learning to read? Who does he turn to for help? How does he persuade them to help him?
Fredrick Douglass found very smart ways to get teaching he was very resilient he didn’t let the mistress stop him from learning. Fredrick used to read newspapers, but the mistress would take that from him. She believed that slavery and education did not go together, and that slaves should not get a chance to learn anything but the plantation. There was even a time he would hide out and get a book and read. When it was head count time, Fredrick would be missing and they would know what he is doing. Once the mistress taught him how to say his alphabet, he didn’t want to stop learning. When Fredrick was sent on his runs he out smarted the kids that were poor but still were able to get an education and learned. He traded food for their knowledge.
Fredrick Douglass got a chance at something that almost every slave couldn’t get, He was able to read and write. Fredrick didn’t take advantage he used that knowledge and kept going he didn’t let any mistress or slave owner stop him.”I read them over and over again with unabated interest. They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.” The more Fredrick read books as he was getting older the more he despise his slave owners, he found out more about his ancestors and where he came from and it just brought more questions. “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery.” Fredrick was on a road of success, break of bandage and oppression, Only if every-their slave got that opportunity .
