Frederick Douglass

The article from Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass. It is basically that the teaching that Afromericans had was not adequately treated. This closely resembles the articles by Hanna Jones and Wilentz because in one part of the excerpt the author says that the person who gave him had irresponsible power did not teach him how he should be and treated him as a brute. An insult that until that time was still used to marginalize people. The strongest thing is that in the article it is mentioned that being treated as human beings was something considered “bad” and “dangerous” that ideals even white people had of superiority. The prohibition for a black man to read even success. The suffering felt by blacks who could read was very high since their masters expected more from them much more than the others. The pressure consumed them. Learning to write was too difficult for slaves since it was prohibited but the author mentions that he had to make an effort and copy all the words until he learned them and was able to write without problem. Everything is possible slaves were intelligent people as mentioned in Hannah Jones’ article if it had not been for them this country would not be the same.