“Education is freedom” (Freire). In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, freedom through education is an reoccurring theme. At first, Douglass suffered the atrocities of slavery, having no hope of escape. However, when one of Douglass’s master gave him a taste of knowledge, he endured his suffering with the idea of obtaining freedom through education invigorating him. Douglass viewed slavery as dehumanizing institution attaining his liberation and fortitude through education.
As a child, Frederick’s deficiency of education is due to his masters, who believe in the notion of a slave's illiteracy: “to keep their slaves thus ignorant” (1). The slaveholders thought keeping their slaves ignorant would make them accommodating and gullible
As a child, Frederick’s deficiency of education is due to his masters, who believe in the notion of a slave's illiteracy: “to keep their slaves thus ignorant” (1). The slaveholders thought keeping their slaves ignorant would make them accommodating and gullible