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Trying to Fight Back
Escape
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100
This person is Douglass' mother
Who is Harriet Bailey
100
What city did Frederick get moved to?
What is Baltimore
100
Who is Sandy Jenkins, what item does he give Frederick, and how is it supposed to help him?
Sandy Jenkins is a slave who gives Frederick a root that supposedly, if kept in the right pocket, would prevent whippings. (67)
100
Frederick escapes to this large city in the north now known as "The Big Apple."
What is New York City
100
Frederick lives out the remainder of his life in this town.
What is New Bedford
200
This person was a cruel slaveholder who Frederick had seen “whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother’s release.” (24)
Who is Mr. Severe
200
Why did Douglass never know the exact date of his birth?
He does not know because he had never seen any authentic record cointaining it. (17)
200
What injuries does Frederick suffer during a fight at the shipyard?
The workers ganged up on him "armed with sticks, stones, and heavy handspikes" (85). He also says that his left eye "was nearly knocked out" after a swift kick to the face (84).
200
Frederick had the last name Stanley when in Baltimore. In New York, he changed it to this (later changed to Douglass).
What is Johnson
200
Colonel Lloyd's plantation was located in this place.
What is Talbot County, Maryland
300
This person was the owner of the plantation Douglass lived on
What is Colonel Lloyd
300
People who fought for the end of slavery were called?
What is abolitionists
300
How does Frederick learn letters when he first travels to Baltimore?
Frederick goes to Durgin and Bailey's shipyards, and begins copying letters like L AND S that he sees written on pieces of wood (larboard and starboard) (47)
300
Why is Frederick not safe at first after he escapes to the north?
He is not safe since he “is liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the torturedness of slavery” (93)
300
Frederick's first wife
Who is Anna Murray
400
These two men were the caretakers of Lloyd's riding equipage, and were often flogged for ridiculous reasons, such as the horse "was not holding its head high enough" (29).
Who is Barney and Barney
400
Douglass buys this book, a compliation of speeches, and realizes from this book that if he educates himself, that will be the first step towards being free. (45)
What is the Columbian Orator
400
Who does Frederick battle with, and how does this affect his life as a slave?
Frederick battles against Mr. Covey, and wins, as a result of his strength from the many long days of labor. This is a turning point for Douglass, saying “it rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me asense of my own manhood” (69).
400
Who was Mr. Ruggles, and how did he aid Frederick?
Mr. David Ruggles was a free African American who started an organization that helped fugitive slaves. Frederick says he had only been in NYC a "few days, when Mr. Ruggles sought me out, and very kindly took me to his boarding-house at the corner of Church and Lespenard Streets" (94).
400
The man who married Frederick and Anna
Who is Reverend James W.C. Pennington
500
This slave was brutally killed by Mr. Gore who gave him "three calls, and if he did not come out at the third call, he would shoot him." When he did not exit the water, Gore shot him in the face with a musket.
Who is Demby
500
What bay does Frederick often admire from a top of a hill in Baltimore?
What is the Chesapeake Bay
500
. What happens to the money Frederick earns from his job as a ship caulker?
Mr. Covery vicioiusly snatches up every last cent of the money Frederick makes. When he would bring Covey his weekly wages, he would “after counting the money ,look me in the face with a robber-like fierceness, and ask, “Is this all?” (89).
500
Explain why Douglass does not reveal the details of his escape.
He recognizes that the story would be much more interesting if he described the process, but if he did so, he could compromise the safety of other slaves and free men who assisted him.
500
Frederick's "term of actual service to Mr. Edward Covey" ended on what day of what year?
What is Christmas Day, 1833 (70)
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