Fredrick Douglass Argumentative Essay

Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery as the son of a white slave master father and a black slave mother in Maryland in 1818. He escaped from slavery in 1838 because of his literacy. It was only due to his ability to read, write, and think critically that Fredrick Douglass was able to find his way enslavement to freedom. Douglass, before he became literate he didn’t question his conditions of work because he wasn’t able to express himself freely with his master. His condition wasn’t the greatest, he slept outside and he didn’t had much clothes or a blanket. Douglass couldn’t really understand what slavery was, he thought it was a normal thing. He worked long hours with a very little to no pay. Douglass left the plantation at a very young age, he felt no remorse because he didn’t had a connection with anyone in the plantation. Douglass was only given yearly clothes and it wasn’t good enough for the year. “Here, too, the slaves of all the other farms received their monthly allowance of food, and their yearly clothing” (Douglass 3) …show more content…
Where a very nice lady called Sophia auld greeted him. Sophia Auld started teaching Douglass how to read and write. Her husband Thomas Auld asked her to stop, that is was a big mistake. Douglass started to read what slavery was. Douglass began to hate slavery, he wanted to stand for slavery. Sophia Auld change after Douglass learned how to read and write. She became more possessive and bossy, she whipped slaves too. “… [M]rs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the A, B, C. After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters” (Douglass