Charles Frederick Worth

Reading and our experiences with books give us new meaning to life. In Frederick Douglass’s, “Learning to Read” and Richard Rodriquez’s “Aria” and in my own life experiences…

While Frederick Douglass’ “Learning how to read and write” was set in the nineteenth century and the documentary Precious Knowledge was filmed in the twenty first century, both works serve to show the reaction of how society views change. Frederick Douglass’ piece “Learning how to read and write” illustrates his struggle with literacy and Precious Knowledge illustrates the struggle of ethnic studies in a school district in Arizona. In the nineteenth century, a slave’s intellect was minimal and…

it.” – Frederick Douglass In February 1818, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey to Harriet Bailey, on Colonel Lloyd plantation. The identify of his father is unknown, but it is believed to be Captain Aaron Anthony, a slaveholder. During this time, he was sent to be raised by his grandparents. Six years later in 1824, Frederick was sent to St. Michaels, Maryland to work on the Lloyd plantation which happened to owned by Aaron Anthony. Frederick was…

by using variations in tone or intensity of the voice, how they talk with fervor and how the audience reacts to this will be examined. Oral form of resistance narrative have been used by activists such as Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King JR., Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X to inspire their audience and fight for an ideal they strongly…

The utopian community was to provide an alternate to the excesses of social and economic competition in society that lead to selfishness. Utopian communities influenced by Charles Fourier were created in Long Island and Red Bank. The goal was to remove the evils created by economic competition. Robert Owen founded the New Harmony community in Indiana which led to better educational opportunities and living conditions for…

many horrid stories Frederick Douglas had expressed in his powerful novel of his journey as a slave. Never would I have imagined the many cruel punishments many African Americans had gone through in the 1800’s based on their race; it was inhumane, cruel, and sinful. As I saw the life of slavery thorough the eyes of Frederick Douglas, I was able to comprehend why he took brave action in making a change towards the corrupt society of the so called, “land of the free.” Frederick Douglas can be…

The Road to Freedom In his excerpt “Learning to Read and Write”, Public speaker, editor, author and former slave, Frederick Douglass, recounts his path to learning how to read and write in order to escape to the north to be a freed man. In order to convey his strong emotions of helplessness and loathing, Douglass effectively uses metaphor and references to animals to convince abolitionists to sympathize with his situation. Douglass begins his narrative by recounting the instruction from his…

Frederick Douglass once said “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”, and in my specific case, I find that statement to be extremely true. Since I was a young child, I loved to read and sometimes I even tried to write little songs or stories, even if they weren’t good. The thing is though, that since then, a lot has changed. Books have changed, the people who write have changed, the way people in general look at literacy has changed and most of all, I have changed. Therefore I find it…

In the short story titled, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, written by Frederick Douglass, the narrator experiences prejudice and racism towards him because of the color of his skin. Likewise, in the autobiography titled Dreams Of My Father, by Barack Obama, the author describes his early life growing up and how he dealt with the discrimination that he was faced with throughout his life. In both of these stories, the two writers opposed the inequality against…

Frederick Douglass was born "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" on the eastern shore of Maryland in February 1818 and died in Washington D.C. February 1985. Douglass was the son of a slave woman named Harriet Bailey and a white man named Aaron Anthony. It was said that Anthony was their slave owner. Douglass spent some time with his grandparents and other relatives when he was younger, before his mother 's death when he was seven. As a slave, Douglass observed the degradations of slavery.…