According to Frederick Douglass in the essay Learning to Read and Write, he describes how he learned to read and write as a slave. While he lives in the mistress house for seven years, he was a slave in that house. He didn't have any opportunity to go to school or to get any education but the mistress in the house helped him and taught him the alphabet. Later Douglass master stopped his wife to teaching him. Douglass did not make himself stand helplessly and he found another way to learn. He meet neighborhood kids and asked those kids to teach him how to learn. He started doing the same things again and again and he's improved his learning very well. He used every opportunity he got and try to read everything what's came his way. Some
