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Frederick Douglass Chapter 2 Questions And Answers

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I will be answering questions 3, 4 and 5 from; Learning to read by Fredrick Douglas. The (The Columbian Orator) was acquired by Fredrick Douglas at the age of twelve and it changed his life. Being a slave in the 1800’s Douglas began to accept he was going to be a slave for life, feeling there was no hope he would ever be free. A speech in (The Columbian Orator) written by Sheridan the words became a powerful message to him, “they gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.” (pg. 26) The ideas of denunciation of slavery and vindication of human rights gave Douglas the strength that he needed, to get through the feeling of being a “slave for life.” But the Ideas soon led to pain, and feelings of disgust and loathing for is enslavers. …show more content…

Douglas wrote” It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.” (pg. 27) Thinking of his forlorn existence plagued him every day, bringing him to thoughts of death. Furthermore, Douglas wished he could take his knowledge and make it disappear, for being ignorant to reality was better. Slavers were powerful, they had the ability to keep slaves within there control. Douglas understood through his illegally acquired knowledge that ignorance is weak and knowledge is power.” Education, Douglas insists goes hand in hand with freedom.” (pg. 24) Slavers made it illegal for slaves to learn or have any education because of fear it would make them “unfit for slavery” and they were correct, it

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Frederick tired to escape twice before finally successfully Doing it. He had help from Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore with whom Douglass had fallen in love. In the beginning of September, he got on a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. Where Anna Murray met up with him and gave him some of money and a sailor 's uniform.

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Douglas composes “It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me… I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it” (Page 169). White slave proprietors made it unlawful for slaves to peruse and think of, this numbness kept them in a condition of limbo which halted their development. Without the ability to inspect their circumstance, they didn't change their circumstance and stayed in this wheel of mistreatment and

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In the Rochester city’s celebration for the National Day of 1852, the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglas gave a speech in which he severely criticized the citizens’ hypocritical actions of celebrating their independence, ignoring the oppressive and unjust slavery that millions in the nation were suffering to. In his speech, Douglas achieved the audience’s agreement on his claim by employing commonly admitted allusions, contrast of two subjects and subtle but efficient word choices. In the speech, Douglas discloses the contradiction between the normal citizens’ gratification and the slaves’ expulsion from this happiness to aim a provocative satire on the national day, which carries the white’s pride and ecstasy and the black’s suffer and

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Fredrick Douglass uses very descriptive words throughout his book, especially when he’s describing scenes and different imagery. In the passage from chapter 2 of Frederick Douglass' narrative, he vividly depicts the sensory experiences of slaves living on the Great House Farm. Douglass effectively conveys the harsh realities of slavery and the dehumanizing conditions in which the slaves lived. The author utilizes a range of sensory images to evoke the sights, sounds, and smells of the plantation, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the environment and comprehend the extreme impact it had on the lives of the enslaved people. One of the senses Douglass focuses on in this passage is sight.

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Journal Week #12 “Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions!”-Fredrick Douglass I picked this sentence this week because of what I am doing in my education class this week. We took implicit bias test. So basically, it is a test to see if you have an implicit bias in favor of white people and against black people. Surprisingly, my results were a strong correlation between negative words and people of colors and then positive words and white people. This really surprised me because I do not have an explicit bias at all, in my opinion.

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This passage appears in Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Douglass narrates his disgust with slavery and more specifically how his grandmother was wrongfully treated and the overall ingratitude slave-owners had toward her. Douglas explains how although his Grandmother cared so much for everyone else all through her life yet she got nothing but torture in return. In the end she is left alone with just loneliness of what then were distant memories of her family which had been ruined through the malicious acts of

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Douglas fought against racism and slavery and furthermore he expressed his frustration against those, who did not allow and contributed with slaves ‘education. Douglas’ book has been written to the abolitionists and anyone else sympathetic to his movement. In this article, he provided his own prospective as a slave, his own experience

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Throughout Douglass's speech, he exceeds expectations by adding excellent examples of ethos, pathos, and unique tone. These examples help the audience see his viewpoints and helps him connect with them. The literary devices used in his speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, aided in his fight against

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During these lectures Douglas endured great resistance and angry mobs. His speeches included such topics on the Christian approval of slavery, the black men inferiority to the white man and the mistreatment and freedom of

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