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Question #3

What state was Frederick Douglass born in?

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Question #4

When was Douglass separated from his mother?






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Question #5

When did Frederick Douglass get to see his mother?





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Question #6

Douglass writes, "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger."

What does "presence" mean in this context?





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Question #7

In the same quote as the last question (copied below), what is another word for "extent"?

"Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger."





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Question #8

Douglass later writes that the wife of the master "is ever disposed to find fault with them; they can seldom do any thing to please her; she is never better pleased than when she sees them under the lash…."

What does "disposed" mean in this context?





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Question #9

What is one good reason that Frederick Douglass describes for masters selling lots of their slaves?





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Question #11

How did Frederick Douglass describe the size of the farms owned by the first master?





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