Chapter 6

Text of Book

Chapter 6, page 1

Chapter 6, page 2

Chapter 6, page 3

Chapter 6, page 4

Questions

1)	What is this chapter mainly about?

2)	Frederick Douglass describes Mrs. Auld saying, "She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery." What does "preserved" mean in this context?

3)	In the same quote about Mrs. Auld, what does Frederick Douglass mean by "in a good degree"? "She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery."

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"?

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"?

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."

8)	What does Frederick Douglass think about city slaveholders?

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."

10)	Who lived across the street from Frederick Douglass at this time?

11)	What else would you like to learn about slavery in Maryland?