tes manage to keep blacks as slaves and by which blacks might free themselves, "Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world . . . if you teach that nigger . . . how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave." (Douglas, 274) Douglas presents his own self-education as the primary means by which he is able to free himself, and as his greatest tool to work for the freedom of all slaves. Douglass has no illusions that knowledge automatically renders slaves free. Knowledge helps slaves to articulate the injustice of slavery to themselves and others, and helps them to recognize themselves as men rather than slaves. In all Douglas discusses education as being the path to freedom and release from slavery.
             Brown like Douglas believed that freedom came from education but his narrative, Clotel, suggest that he believe death is the way for slaves to get freedom. He was a self
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