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Frederick Douglass: Education And Slavery

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“Education and slavery were incompatible with each other.” It became a negative thing for Douglass to be educated especially about him being a slave. Knowing all this information was leading him to being sad, wanting to kill himself. 3) “It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but no ladder upon which to get out.” He knew he had rights and deserved to be free, but couldn’t do anything about it. This only led to frustration. 5) Douglass was more eager to become literate when he read in a book that a slave escaped three times but the third time he was brought back he said some very impressive things to his master which ultimately, “….resulted in the voluntary emancipation of the slave.” 7) “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest
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