Frederick Douglass Learning To Read And Write Summary

Marcus Macias

Professor Wheeler

ENGL 1133

16 September 2015

Learning to Read and Write

A. Frederick Douglas

a. About him

i. Abolitionist and journalist. ii. Born a slave in a white plantation iii. He about his life in the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas”. iv. He made newspaper the “North Star”

b. Learning to read and write

i. Was as a slave. ii. His mistress taught him considering that she didn’t want him to learn from anyone else iii. He was going to live with the mistress, she didn’t want to treat him like a real man because it would be wrong iv. She didn’t want him to reading the newspaper because it was dangerous.

v. She taught him the alphabet. vi. He wanted to continue his education; he wanted to know how to read. vii. He wanted to try to find

He was motivated to learn ix. He was finally able to learn how to read..

x. He carried his book with him. xi. The book was about a slave that ran away constantly and argued with the master using intellectual terms. Which led him to his freedom. xii. He thought that freedom was everywhere, it made him aggravated in the fact that he was held in captivity the hands of Master Hugh. xiii. He had believed that learning was a curse itself.. xiv. He would attempt to write xv. He would watch men write letters in the shipyards. xvi. He would also go up to children and say “I know how to write as well as you” trying to challenge them. xvii. He would practice on walls and sidewalks with chalk. xviii. He would get copy of his master’s son’s book and write in the blank spaces of the book, eventually learning how to write.

B. James Baldwin

a. About him

i. He was an essayist, play right, novelist, and a short story writer. ii. He was born in Harlem, New York. iii. He resided in Europe from 1948 to 1956. iv. He was a civil rights activist

v. He wrote books that were mainly based on slavery..

b. Stranger in the village

i. The first black man in a small Swiss village. ii. They had never seen a black man