Frederick Douglass
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If we look at the struggles of Frederick Douglass to read and write, we see how the institution of slavery was successful in large part because of denying the means of literacy to blacks. One day when he was learning the A-B-C’s with the wife of his master, the master took her aside and said of her pursuits, “If you teach that nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy”(Douglass 36). This shows not only that blacks were denied the means of literacy, but that their white owners new denying them the means of literacy was one sure way of keeping them in bondage.Of course, these words of his master only inspired Douglass to find the means of acquiring literacy at any
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