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Chapter 5

Text of Book

Chapter 5, page 1

Chapter 5, page 2

Chapter 5, page 3

Chapter 5, page 4

Chapter 5, page 5

Chapter 5, page 6

Chapter 5, page 7

Chapter 5, page 8

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Chapter 5, page 10

Chapter 5, page 11

Questions

1) What is this chapter mainly about?

2) Frederick Douglass recalls that "ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case."

What does he mean by the word "bind"?

3) In the same quote (below), what does "suspended" mean?

"The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case."

4) Frederick Douglass mentions that he had some "leisure time" because he was too young for field work.

How old was he at this point?

5) What two problems most affected Frederick Douglass as a child?

6) How were the slave children fed at Colonel Lloyd's farm?

7) What happened when Frederick Douglass got on the boat headed to Baltimore?

8) What was the new task that Frederick Douglass was given?

9) Why was Frederick Douglass chosen for this task?

10) What did Frederick Douglass see for the first time in Baltimore?

11) Frederick Douglass recalled:

"From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace…"

What does "recollection" mean?

12) In the same quote as the last question (below), what does Frederick Douglass mean by "foul embrace"?

"From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace…"

13) What else would you like to learn about Frederick Douglas' childhood?