In this short story of Fredrick Douglass “learning to read and write”, we come to discover that Fredrick Douglass was a slave for the Hugh family for seven years and wants to learn to read and write. It is within these seven years that He is able to fully learn to read and write by himself. At first, He was able to get help from Mrs. Hugh but soon after she stopped abruptly because of her husband insisting to. In order for Him to still learn, he would ask young white children to help him read a book he brought with him while running errands for his master. When Fredrick Douglass turned 12, he acquired a book called “The Columbian Orator”, where within the book he came across a very interesting piece of dialogue between a master and his slave,
