2) In chapter two Douglass talks about his own personal experience with learning how to read to try and meet his critical goal of persuading his audience of white Northerners why slavery should be abolished. People who were enslaved in the 1800s were mostly thought of as inferior beings. In Frederick Douglass’s narrative he quotes his master who said, “A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master- to do as he is told to do”(45). Essentially white southerners, and some northerners considered slaves as subhuman, and had the idea that slaves should just do as they are told. Douglass challenges this idea that enslaved people were less than by making a point that people who were enslaved were very capable of learning how to read, and that
