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Frederick Douglass Effects On Education

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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass places a tone of someone who is emotionally overcome by struggles to free himself, mentally and physically, from slavery. The issue focused on is when Douglass overhears his master stating, “if you teach a nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him”; he begins to suspect that if slaves managed to educate themselves, it would be impossible to stop them from becoming free, therefore, acknowledging that education is slavery’s damaging effect on slaveholders but more importantly, slavery exists not because the masters are better than their slaves, but because they keep their slaves ignorant. Subsequently, what his master dreaded, is what he desired the most and with that he recognizes knowledge
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