Fredrick Douglas: The Path To Freedom
Fredrick Douglas was a born into slavery. Like many slaves, he was unsure of his background birth date. Douglas slave-owner believed that educating a slave makes them unmanageable. Yet, Douglass finds himself learning to read with the help of local poor white children. As he learns to read and write , he becomes conscious of the evils of slavery and of the existence of the abolitionist, or anti slavery, movement. Although, Douglas struggles to free himself, mentally and physically from slavery he eventually escapes to the North. Douglas acknowledges that ignorance is used as a tool of slavery; knowledge as the path to freedom; slavery’s damaging effect on slaveholders; slaveholding as a perversion of Christianity. He focuses on the Dehumanizing