February 14, 2017 - 12:46
I wanted to make a comment on what we have read in the story. I have actually read excerpts from this school in highschool but I don't think I was able to fully grasp what I was reading. I don't think I was able to fulling grasp who Fredrick Douglass was and the extreme tension that I feel reading it. I am also able to make the connection between literacy and how important it was for him in that time period. Literacy was a way out for him. I think that if he hadn't learned how to read and write, because literacy meant power which slaveowners did not want slaves to have, he wouldn't been able to even begin to think of a plan to find freedom or to even tell his story.