{"id":10257,"date":"2017-09-04T21:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:46:24","slug":"douglassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/douglassa\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Text of Book<\/u><\/h2>\n

Chapter 1, page 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 3<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 4<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 5<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 6<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 7<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 8<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chapter 1, page 9<\/a><\/h3>\n

Questions<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n
1)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is the first chapter mainly about?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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2)<\/b><\/td>\nWho does “I” refer to?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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3)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat state was Frederick Douglass born in?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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4)<\/b><\/td>\nWhen was Douglass separated from his mother?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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5)<\/b><\/td>\nWhen did Frederick Douglass get to see his mother?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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6)<\/b><\/td>\nDouglass 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.”

<\/p>\n<\/a>What does “presence” mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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7)<\/b><\/td>\nIn the same quote as the last question (copied below), what is another word for “extent”?

<\/p>\n<\/a>“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.”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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8)<\/b><\/td>\nDouglass 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….”

<\/p>\n<\/a>What does “disposed” mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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9)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is one good reason that Frederick Douglass describes for masters selling lots of their slaves?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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10)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat was the name of Frederick Douglas’ first owner?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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11)<\/b><\/td>\nHow did Frederick Douglass describe the size of the farms owned by the first master?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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12)<\/b><\/td>\nFrederick Douglass describes the first time he saw someone whipped and it is truly horrific.

<\/p>\n<\/a>Why would Frederick Douglass publish this account?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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13)<\/b><\/td>\nHow old was Frederick Douglass when he saw the first person whipped that he remembered?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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14)<\/b><\/td>\nThis is a tough chapter to read for many people. This history is important but sad and painful. Take a moment and make sure you are ok to continue.

<\/p>\n<\/a>What else would you like to learn about the Frederick Douglas’ early life?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

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Text of Book Chapter 1, page 1 Chapter 1, page 2 Chapter 1, page 3 Chapter 1, page 4 Chapter 1, page 5 Chapter 1, page 6 Chapter 1, page 7 Chapter 1, page 8 Chapter 1, page 9 Questions 1) What is the first chapter mainly about? 2) Who does “I” refer to? 3) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31340,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/31340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}