Vocabulary
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Facts
100

Rude or showing a lack of respect 

What is "Impertinent"?

100

What significant event marked Douglass's first resistance to being beaten?

What is "Douglass's fight with Covey"

100

This fellow enslaved person gave Douglass a root, believing it would protect him from being beaten.

Who is Sandy Jenkins?

100

This paper became "meat and drink" Douglass after escaping from slavery.

What is "The Liberator"?

100

This was the name of the plantation described as a large city where many slaves worked and visited to receive allowance.

What was "The Great House Farm"?

200

Define intimation

What is a hint or subtle suggestion?

200

Douglass resolved to escape from slavery after learning how to do this.

What was reading?

200

This woman initially inherited Douglass from her father before sending Douglass to live with her brother-in-law. 

Who is Lucretia Auld?

200

This was Douglass' name at birth.

Who is "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey"?

200

This type of slaveholder was seen as the worst because of their cruelty and evident hypocrisy. 

What was a "religious" slaveholder? 

300

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

Obdurate

300

Douglass traded this with poor white children in exchange for reading lessons

What was bread? 

300

This man was Douglass's first master and possibly his father.

Who was Captian Anthony?

300

Douglass described this event as the turning point in his career as a slave. Remarkably, this event went unpunished.

What is the flight with Edward Covey?

300

The town and state where Douglass was born

Where is Tuckahoe, Maryland?

400

Define rapturous 

What is "expressing great joy or delight"?

400

Douglass received the news of this person's death as if they were a stranger.

Who was his mother, Harriet Bailey?

400

This woman was teaching Douglass to read before slavery made her cruel. 

Who is Sophia Auld?

400

Douglass personified this claiming it "looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm" (Douglass 58).

What is Freedom?

400

The slaves were known to do this when they were most sad

What is sing?

500

A firmly held belief or opinion

What is a "conviction"?

500

In his first escape attempt, Douglass planned to escape with this.

What is a canoe? 

500

This slave master was known as a "slave breaker" for his cruelty. 

Who was Edward Covey?

500

Though slaves looked forward to this holiday, Douglass referred to it as a cruel trick and deceptive tool for slaveholders. 

What is Christmas?

500

This slave refused to leave the creek and was killed by Mr. Gore to prevent disobedience from other slaves.

Who was Demby?

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