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Frederick Douglass Learning To Read And Write Summary

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In “Learning to read and write” Frederick Douglass shares his story about his challenges since he was a child and how he learned to read and write while he was a slave. His enslavers did not want Douglass to lean anything because they didn't want him to know things and didn't want him to become someone valuable. His enslavers thought that slavery and education were not acceptable. Even though Douglass was not permitted to learn to read he did not give up and any opportunity he had to learn he would take it.
 Douglass had someone to teach him to read but instead a teacher he had a mistress. The mistress at first didn't really teach him much she left him in a mental darkness. She went from being a “tender-hearted woman” to having a heart of stone. Douglass was always watched because he was always trying to learn. His …show more content…

This shows that Douglass wanted to learn all that he could he wanted to take advantage even if it was risky. 
 He was always determined to learn to read and write. Douglass states that “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 I could, I converted into teachers” (101). What he is trying to say by this is that he was trying to get those little white boys to teach him because the mistress stopped teaching him because of her change of heart.
 When Douglass was sent to go run errands he would take some bread and his book and run the errands as fast as possible to be able to learn something from his book and he finally seceded in learning to read. Douglass explains that “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” He says this because he would feed the boys in the neighborhood so that they would give him information so he could

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