Douglass's Escape
These emotions describe Frederick Douglass’s first feelings upon escaping slavery and how his emotions changed during his first days of freedom.
What is happiness? What is lonely and depressed?
This person is Douglass's first slave owner.
Who is Captain Anthony?
This is the age Frederick Douglass was separated from his siblings and mother.
What is when he was an infant — only a few months old?
Name a "friend" of Douglass who is also enslaved or a free black.
Who are Sandy Jenkins, David Ruggles, Henry Harris, John Harris or Henry Bailey?
This is the US city where Frederick Douglass was born.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
This is the location where Douglass hid from Edward Covey after their fight.
What is the cornfield and then the forest?
This is the name of Mr. and Mrs. Auld's son.
Who is Master Thomas?
These were Douglass's emotions after finding out that his mother died.
What is it feeling like the death of a stranger?
This is the object Sandy Jenkins gave Frederick Douglass.
What is a root?
This animal was treated better than enslaved people in Colonel Lloyd's plantation.
What is horses?
This is where Douglass started his escape to freedom and where he escaped to.
What is Baltimore and New York?
This is the person Douglass's master sent Frederick Douglass to, hoping this person would break Douglass's spirit and teach him obedience by breaking Douglass's body, soul and spirit.
Who is Edward Covey?
This person was rumored to be Douglass's father.
Who is his first white slave owner, Captain Anthony?
This cruel overseer shot and killed an enslaved man named Demby because he refused to leave a creek after running away from a whipping.
Who is Mr. Gore?
Daily Double!!!
This is the meaning of Frederick Douglass saying “a slave in form only.”
What is being a slave physically, but free in courage and spirit?
These are the transportation modes that Douglass uses to escape slavery.
What is a train, a steamboat, and a ferry?
This person forbade any further teaching to Douglass of the alphabet and learning to read.
Who is Ms. Auld's husband, Mr. Auld?
This family member got whipped, causing their back to bleed for going out with her boyfriend at night traumatizing Douglass at a young age making him hide in a closet.
Who is Aunt Hester?
This is how Frederick Douglass's mother visited him.
What is walking 12 miles across plantations at night?
This is what Douglass realized when he said, “Learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.”
What is how terrible slavery was and how much freedom really meant?
These are the series of events that happened during the fight against Edward Corvey.
What is Douglass gets tied with a rope, Douglass escapes the rope, Douglass grabs Covey by the neck, Covey calls for help, Douglass kicks Covey's help in the ribs?
These are the ways Mr. Covey succeed at breaking Douglass as a slave.
What is after Douglass failed, Covey orders him to take off his clothes and receive punishment. When Douglass does not respond, Covey rushes at him, tears his clothing off, and whips him repeatedly. Covey continues to whip Douglass almost weekly?
This is how Frederick Douglass learned to read and write after Mrs. Auld was forbidden to teach him.
What is he traded bread with white boys in exchange for reading lessons?
He is Douglass's "nice" slave owner.
Who is Mr. William Freeman?
This is when Frederick Douglass realized that knowledge was the pathway to freedom.
What is when Mr. Auld forbade Mrs. Auld from teaching him to read — he realized reading was power?