Vocab
Barbarity
what is the quality of being cruel, inhumane, or uncivilized?
Fredrick Douglass
Who is the author and narrator; born into slavery, escapes to freedom?
Freedom and Education
What is learning to read brings both pain and power?
Imagery- example
What is “I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.”?
Dignity of the Human Person
what is "All are made in God’s image."?
abolition
what is doing away with a system or practice or institution?
Sophia and Hugh Auld
who was a kind woman turned cruel; symbol of moral corruption of slavery.- Sophia
who was Douglass’s Baltimore master; prevents his education.-Hugh Auld
Faith and Providence
what is Douglass sees God’s hand guiding him toward freedom?
Symbolism
what is "Literacy = freedom; marriage = rebirth and restoration.
The Call to Family and Community
What is "Marriage and relationships restore what slavery destroyed."?
compliance
what is a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others?
Edward Covey
who was a“Slave-breaker”; Douglass fights back and reclaims dignity?
Human Dignity
what is every person deserves respect; slavery violates this truth?
Irony
What is Slaveholders using Christianity to justify sin?
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
What is "Douglass defends the oppressed."?
dilapidated
what is falling down and in total disrepair, something that's dilapidated is going to need a lot of fixing up?
Mr. Gore
who was an overseer who kills Demby.
Moral Corruption of Slavery
what is Sin destroys both the oppressed and the oppressor?
Tone
change in their emotion
Fear → courage → gratitude → faith.
Fortitude
What is "Courage to stand for truth in adversity."?
dregs
what is the most worthless or undesirable part of something?
Captain Anthony
who was Douglass’s first master; possibly his father?
Courage and Fortitude
what is Douglass faces fear and injustice with strength and faith?
Metaphor- example
what is "...—among fellow-men, yet feeling as
if in the midst of wild beasts,..."
Providence
What is "God works through hardship to bring good."?