Mr. Auld chastises his wife for teaching young Frederick to read. Why?

"From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom." What does Douglass understand?

"What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought" This quote illustrates the literary technique of...

The story of Mary and Henrietta...

"Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."

"Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell." This sentence ...

"This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge."

The book, "The Columbian Orator" is about...

"Hearing the word in this connection very often, I set about learning what it meant. The dictionary afforded me little or no help. I found it was "the act of ______________;" but then I did not know what was to be ____________. Here I was perplexed."

Douglass learned to write four letters while working in the shipyard.

Douglass would practice writing in the blank spaces of Master Thomas's copybook.

When Douglass's master, Captain Anthony, dies, Douglass is ...

"Silvery-headed age and sprightly youth, maids and matrons, had to undergo the same indelicate inspection. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder." This passage...

"a man who, but a few days before, to give me a sample of his bloody disposition, took my little brother by the throat, threw him on the ground, and with the heel of his boot stamped upon his head till the blood gushed from his nose and ears" Who is this man?

"The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water. Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl. All is gloom. The grave is at the door." This passage ...

"A great many times have we poor creatures been nearly perishing with hunger, when food in abundance lay mouldering in the safe and smoke-house, and our pious mistress was aware of the fact; and yet that mistress and her husband would kneel every morning, and pray that God would bless them in basket and store!" This illustrates...

Master Thomas, "Captain Auld," was a cruel slaveowner, but when he attended a Methodist camp meeting where he experienced religion, his heart softened and he treated his slaves with dignity.

Slavemasters used the Bible as a justification for their cruelty towards slaves.

Given Douglass's growing defiance toward his master, Captain Auld, he is sent to a well-known "slave breaker" named...