Vocab and Ch 7
Hardened; unwilling to change an opinion
Obdurate
A risk
Hazard
Sophia Auld becomes malicious and prevents Douglass from reading when she realizes these TWO THINGS are incompatible with each other.
Slavery and Education
Careful judgment
Prudence
Douglass is summoned back to the plantation he was born on because______________.
His master Captain Anthony has died and his children are dividing up his "property".
A trick or scheme
Stratagem
Using very little of something
Sparingly
Douglass begins to see his new literacy and education as a curse rather than a blessing as he begins to feel tormented by his enslavement. This painful awareness makes Douglass wish he were a _________ so that he can stop thinking.
A beast (animal)
Reprimand, scold
Reprove
At the valuation, men and women, old and young, married and single, are ranked alongside ________.
livestock (horses, sheep, pigs)
A book used to teach public speaking that featured an enslaved person making a compelling argument for emancipation, resulting in his master freeing him.
The Columbian Orator
Proof that something is right or reasonable
Vindication
Douglass learns the meaning of the word "abolition" in
complete or perfect in every detail
Consummate
Douglass fears falling into the possession of THIS MAN, (one of Captain Anthony's sons), who once took Douglass's little brother by the throat, threw him on the ground, and stamped the heel of his boot upon his head, and then turned to Douglass and told him he would serve him the same way once he owned him.
Master Andrew
These two characters try to convince Douglass to run away to the north for freedom (ethnicity and occupation)
Irish dockworkers
to hate
Loathe
Pretends to be uninterested (because he cannot safely confide in anyone. This reaffirms the slave maxim: "A still tongue makes a wise head")
To cause to experience something negative
Incur
Douglass laments the treatment of his __________, who after serving her master for an entire lifetime, is passed into the hands of strangers without a word of gratitude and sent out into the woods to live alone.
His grandmother
Douglass gives his bread to the little white boys he meets in the street in exchange for ________
Reading lessons
Not decreased
Unabated
Douglass watches the carpenters in the shipyards labelling pieces of wood with letters that correspond to their position in the ship in order to learn __________.
Who is Douglass going to miss the most when he is forced to leave Baltimore?
The little boys who taught him how to read
The Auld brothers have a falling-out, and as a consequence, Douglass is taken from Master Hugh and sent to live with Master Thomas in St. Michael’s, a town in rural Maryland. On his way to St. Michael’s, he studies the countryside and transportation with the intention of _________.