t in this world. Having an education made Douglass dangerous man to
those in the South and gave Douglass a power like no other. Douglass was fortune to be
taught, having been given ownership to Mr. and Mrs. Auld of Baltimore was a miracle in
"There were a number of slave children that might have been sent from the
plantation to Baltimore. There were those younger, those older, and those of the
same age. I was chosen from among them all, and was the first, last, and only
This was a first for things to come, having this happened would change the course of his
life forever. Upon his 7 years with the Auld's, he learned to read and write, which
awoken his mind as well as opened it for greater purposes. His literacy prompted his
continual thinking about the slave situati
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