Well at first she never owned a slave before so she treated Douglass with like family, because I think she didn’t know how else to treat him. His new mistress treated Douglass with lots of kindness and was always friendly to him, even how you would treat family. But this kindness didn’t hold on for long and suddenly she became like all the other slave owners a crucial person who had bad behavior towards the slaves and who would harm her slaves. I think the reckless power the masters had over a human being had negative consequences towards their behavior. On top she then realized that slavery and education don’t fit together. Douglass wants us to show how harmful and how a person’s personality can change while slavery is still present. It didn’t
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He wants to be educated to expand Douglass’s horizon to be more strong and “free”. Mrs. Auld told Douglass “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell” (Douglass, 142) she continues saying that when slaves know how to write and read they couldn’t be no longer working as a slave, they would become “unmanageable”, and of no value to his master, meaning slaves would act rebellious against their masters and just not fit no more into the category of a slave. To be able to write and read would free a slaves mind which lead them to some sort of freedom. And at the knowledge of reading and writing gave him independence and the desire to live one day free. He started to feel restless. At the end he also knowledgeable with literacy how to help other slaves with his new learned knowledge which lead to build new interactions and connections to …show more content…
The slave’s arguments were so compelling and impressive that as an outcome the master set him free. It also contained and addressed the abolition of slavery. That is how he starts learning about the word and later on about the meaning of the word abolition. The second reading selection out of the book was a speech from Sheridan “on behalf of Catholic emancipation” (Douglass, 150). He stated that he got out of the speech was “a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights” (Douglass,150-151). Douglass’s shows here how his learning to read helped him to give him an understanding of the foundation of slavery and the significant
He wants to be educated to expand Douglass’s horizon to be more strong and “free”. Mrs. Auld told Douglass “If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell” (Douglass, 142) she continues saying that when slaves know how to write and read they couldn’t be no longer working as a slave, they would become “unmanageable”, and of no value to his master, meaning slaves would act rebellious against their masters and just not fit no more into the category of a slave. To be able to write and read would free a slaves mind which lead them to some sort of freedom. And at the knowledge of reading and writing gave him independence and the desire to live one day free. He started to feel restless. At the end he also knowledgeable with literacy how to help other slaves with his new learned knowledge which lead to build new interactions and connections to …show more content…
The slave’s arguments were so compelling and impressive that as an outcome the master set him free. It also contained and addressed the abolition of slavery. That is how he starts learning about the word and later on about the meaning of the word abolition. The second reading selection out of the book was a speech from Sheridan “on behalf of Catholic emancipation” (Douglass, 150). He stated that he got out of the speech was “a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights” (Douglass,150-151). Douglass’s shows here how his learning to read helped him to give him an understanding of the foundation of slavery and the significant