Frederick Douglass

What is an abolitionist?

• A slave

• A person who supports the ending of slavery

• A slave owner

• A person who does not support the ending of slavery

Abolitionists all used the same method to end slavery

• True

• False

Frederick Douglass was most known for which abolitionist methods...

• Violence

• Writing and Public Speaking

• Underground

  Railroad

What is slavery?

• A happy system where one person willingly lets another person own them. 
• A cruel system in which someone legally owns or controls another person.
• A system that is ok.
• A monarchy with a king and queen.

Frederick Douglass was a known abolitionist. What is an abolitionist? 

• a person who wanted to end slavery.
• a person who wanted to help endangered animals.
• a person who fought for women's rights.
• a presidential candidate.

What is the purpose for Douglass's writing his slave narrative?

• To share his experience as a slave in hopes to bring changes for the lives of the slaves.
• To show off that he is a man.
• He just wants to write for pleasure.
• None of the above

Why did Douglass runaway from Mr. Covey?

• He wanted to be with his mother.
• He was brutal to him.
• He wanted to be with his wife and children.
• He was lazy and didn't want to do work.

What did Douglass ask Master Thomas to do?  

• End the agreement with Covey 
• Let him live with Sandy 
• Feed and clothe him
• Buy his freedom      

Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.

Which central idea is developed and supported by this passage?

• Justice for enslaved people is impossible.

• An enslaved person is treated no better than an animal.

• Hypocrisy in religion is used to justify slavery.

• Keeping people enslaved makes slaveholders inhuman.

Did Douglass know when he was born?

• Yes he did.

• No he didn't