Characters
Who is one of the most influential slaves that escaped and wrote a book about his life?
Fredrick Douglass
What main plantation did Fredrick Douglass grow up at?
Colonel Lloyd's Plantation/Farm
What "power" did Sandy Jenkin's root hold?
Used as a magical charm to ward off whips and protect
Why did the masters keep information about their slaves to themselves and not tell their slaves? (birthdays, family, etc.)
To keep them helpless and ignorant
The reason that slave holders keep the slaves dumb is what for what reason?
ignorance is used as a tool of control
Who first taught Fredrick Douglass to read and write?
Sophia Auld/Mrs. Auld
New York
What did the boats mean or symbolize to Douglass?
Freedom/hope
What does Douglass literacy symbolize?
It shows self-liberation and demonstrated the wisdom he had.
The fight between Douglass and Mr. Covey portrays what theme
resistance and self identity
Who gave Fredrick Douglass a magical root for safety?
Sandy Jenkins
Where does Fredrick Douglass face his main breaking point?
Mr. Covey's Farm
Knowledge/freedom/equality with slaveholders
Why did Douglass think education was the way to freedom?
The free people had education and it gave him a sense of hope.
Many slaveholders were Christian but still treated their slaves horribly, what is the main theme taught from that?
Hypocrisy of Christian slaveholders
Who was known as "the snake" or "slave breaker"
Mr. Covey
Where does Fredrick Douglass learn to read?
Baltimore
Douglass portrays self-ownership in what situation?
Douglass fighting with Mr.Covey and not letting anyone beat him anymore
What was the name of the abolitionist paper douglass founded?
North Star
Mrs. Auld was kind and taught Douglass to read before she was stopped by her husband, what theme did this show
power's corrupting influence/ knowledge is freedom
Harriet Bailey
Talbot, Maryland
What did the songs the slaves sang mean to them?
Although these songs seemed happy to the free people, these songs were filled with sorrow and pain.
What did douglass use to teach himself to write?
Ship carpenters markings on lumber at the shipyard
Many slaveholders would do this to their slaves to make it feel ok to treat them they way that they did. (theme)
dehumanize/ dehumanization