Frederick Douglas: The Importance Of Learning To Education To Freedom

Frederick Douglas was a black man who was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He once said, “Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.” And, “Some men know the value of education by having it. I know its value by not having it.” Frederick then went on to become the Founder of Civil Rights.

In today’s world, literacy is a must in becoming successful.

Frederick Douglas was a man who went from slavery to education to Freedom. Frederick Douglas was in Baltimore, Maryland working for a man named Hugh Auld and his family. Hugh Auld was Frederick’s second Master. Hugh’s wife was a Northerner, so Fredericks life there did improve somewhat. Northern slaveholders treated their slaves better than the southerners did. Mrs. Auld, Hugh’s wife, began tutoring Frederick. Mrs. Auld began teaching Frederick the basics of reading and writing. It wasn’t long before she had to stop teaching him because her husband wouldn’t allow it. He said if slaves could read they wouldn’t be fit to be slaves. After that he was watched very closely. They made certain he wasn’t near newspapers at all. Frederick Douglas had realized the importance of learning to read and write and how these skills could help him. Douglas’s desire to read and write only triumphed. He was very determined to learn to read and write whichever way he could.

These letters were either “S” or “LF. These letters signified were on a ship they were supposed to go. After Douglas learned the meanings of these letters on the timber he would boast to the white boys that he could write as good as they could and after that the boys would help him learn other letters of the alphabet. Soon, Frederick Douglas was able to read and write. His copybooks were the wooden fence and the brick walls and even the pavement with a lump of chalk. Every chance he got he would he would work on reading and