Question #6
Frederick Douglass wrote "I had resided but a short time in Baltimore before I observed a marked difference, in the treatment of slaves, from that which I had witnessed in the country."
What is another word for "resided"?
Question #7
In the same quote (below), what does "observed" mean?
"I had resided but a short time in Baltimore before I observed a marked difference, in the treatment of slaves, from that which I had witnessed in the country."
Question #8
What does Frederick Douglass think about city slaveholders?
Question #9
In the quote below, what does "curb" mean?
"There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation."
Question #10
Who lived across the street from Frederick Douglass at this time?
Question #11
What else would you like to learn about slavery in Maryland?
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 6, page 1
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Questions
| 1) | What is this chapter mainly about? |
| 4) | Who started teaching Frederick Douglas to read? |
| 5) | What did Frederick Douglass discover was "the white man's power to enslave the black man"? |
| 8) | What does Frederick Douglass think about city slaveholders? |
| 10) | Who lived across the street from Frederick Douglass at this time? |
| 11) | What else would you like to learn about slavery in Maryland? |
Chapter 7, page 1
Table of Contents
I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by any one else. It is due, however, to my mistress to say of her, that she did not adopt this course of treatment immediately. She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.