Text of Book
Chapter 10, page 1
Chapter 10, page 2
Chapter 10, page 3
Chapter 10, page 4
Chapter 10, page 5
Chapter 10, page 6
Chapter 10, page 7
Chapter 10, page 8
Chapter 10, page 9
Chapter 10, page 10
Chapter 10, page 11
Chapter 10, page 12
Chapter 10, page 13
Chapter 10, page 14
Chapter 10, page 15
Chapter 10, page 16
Chapter 10, page 17
Chapter 10, page 18
Chapter 10, page 19
Chapter 10, page 20
Chapter 10, page 21
Chapter 10, page 22
Chapter 10, page 23
Chapter 10, page 24
Chapter 10, page 25
Chapter 10, page 26
Chapter 10, page 27
Chapter 10, page 28
Chapter 10, page 29
Chapter 10, page 30
Chapter 10, page 31
Questions
| 1) | This is a long chapter! What is the best summary of this chapter? |
| 2) | How did Frederick Douglass describe Mr. Covey? |
| 3) | Frederick Douglass says that the "battle with Mr. Covey was the turning–point in my career as a slave."
What does he mean by "turning–point"? |
| 4) | Frederick Douglass wrote "It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood."
What does "revived" mean in this context? |
| 5) | What does Frederick Douglass mean by "rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom"? |
| 6) | What does "however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact" mean? |
| 7) | Why did Mr. Covey not ask for Frederick Douglas to be publicly whipped? |
| 8) | While still working on the farm, what did Frederick Douglass spend Sundays doing with Henry and John? |
| 9) | Who lived in the house where Frederick Douglass held his Sabbath school? |
| 10) | What year did Frederick Douglass decide he would try to escape? |
| 12) | Why did Frederick Douglass and his friends not consider escaping to Canada? |
| 13) | Patrick Henry famously said "Give me liberty or give me death."
Why did Frederick Douglass say that he and his friends "did more than Patrick Henry"? |
| 14) | Why did the white shipbuilders refuse to work with the black shipbuilders? |
| 15) | When Frederick Douglas becomes a calker how much money does he get? |
| 16) | What else would you like to learn about slavery, escaping slaves, and black freeman working in the 1800s? |