Moin Uddin Ahmed Professor Gabrielle Educational Justice 1 September 2016 The book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass book is based on Frederick Douglass narrating his life story as being a slave. Slave wasn’t treated as a human, they were treated as a “Property” to the white people. Also, slaveholder didn’t give enough food to the slave and they made their slave work throughout the year, even in the Winter season with just wearing one shirt. Furthermore, slaves did not have the right to go to school or learn how to read or write because white people were worried what if the black people overpowered them. When Douglass’s master Colonel Lloyd sent him to the Baltimore to work for Mr.Auld. His mistress, …show more content…
However, when her husband heard she was teaching him how to read and write, he got very anxious and screamed her, “If you teach… once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master” (Page 29). This illustrates that If Douglass becomes an educated man, then he’ll be smarter than the slaveholder and he’ll not obey his master. After Mr. Auld screamed at his wife, she started changing and as the time goes, she even got worse than him. She stopped teaching him how to read and write, and she abused him for not fulfilling the work as the way she wanted. As the time goes, his desire for learning increased and he started reading books. After long time, he has succeeded in reading and now is the time for him to learn how to write properly. His mistress, taught him how to write few words and he would re-write those words and he would also write over what his Master Thomas wrote in his notebook. After long time, like reading, now he succeeded in writing. When I was reading chapter five and six of this story, I found a big difference between our young generation in the United States and Douglass childhood, now we are forced to go school by our