Vocabulary
Rude or showing a lack of respect
What is "Impertinent"?
What significant event marked Douglass's first resistance to being beaten?
What is "Douglass's fight with Covey"
This fellow enslaved person gave Douglass a root, believing it would protect him from being beaten.
Who is Sandy Jenkins?
This paper became "meat and drink" Douglass after escaping from slavery.
What is "The Liberator"?
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"?
Define intimation
What is a hint or subtle suggestion?
Douglass resolved to escape from slavery after learning how to do this.
What was reading?
This woman initially inherited Douglass from her father before sending Douglass to live with her brother-in-law.
Who is Lucretia Auld?
This was Douglass' name at birth.
Who is "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey"?
This type of slaveholder was seen as the worst because of their cruelty and evident hypocrisy.
What was a "religious" slaveholder?
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action
Obdurate
Douglass traded this with poor white children in exchange for reading lessons
What was bread?
This man was Douglass's first master and possibly his father.
Who was Captian Anthony?
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?
The town and state where Douglass was born
Where is Tuckahoe, Maryland?
Define rapturous
What is "expressing great joy or delight"?
Douglass received the news of this person's death as if they were a stranger.
Who was his mother, Harriet Bailey?
This woman was teaching Douglass to read before slavery made her cruel.
Who is Sophia Auld?
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?
The slaves were known to do this when they were most sad
What is sing?
A firmly held belief or opinion
What is a "conviction"?
In his first escape attempt, Douglass planned to escape with this.
What is a canoe?
This slave master was known as a "slave breaker" for his cruelty.
Who was Edward Covey?
Though slaves looked forward to this holiday, Douglass referred to it as a cruel trick and deceptive tool for slaveholders.
What is Christmas?
This slave refused to leave the creek and was killed by Mr. Gore to prevent disobedience from other slaves.
Who was Demby?