In the story “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,” Frederick Douglass goes into great detail about his experiences as a slave. Born in Tuckahoe in Talbot County, Maryland Douglass was put through many challenges the few rare positive encounters but generally negative ones on his search for freedom. Eventually, after years and years of numerous struggles he reaches his goal of finding freedom. The struggles begin right away in Douglass’s life when he is not given the privilege of knowing how old he is, “A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood.” (Dougglass 810). Sadly, Douglass has little to no memory of his mother is, due to the fact that he was taken away from her when he was a child. However, at roughly seven years old there was a rumor going around that his master at the time, Captain Anthony, a white man was his father. …show more content…
Hugh Auld. “I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life,” (Dougglass 823) walking up to their home he was welcomed with open arms at the Hugh’s home. Sophia, Hugh’s wife, makes the choice to teach Douglass how to spell simple words along with the A, B, C’s. Unfortunately Hugh Auld finds out that Sophia was teaching Douglass and bands her from doing this again, “Teaching him to read will forever unfit him to be a slave.” (Dougglass 824). From this moment on Douglass understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. Although Sophia did not teach him after her encounter with her husband, Douglass was able to remember and rehearse enough of the information she had taught him in the past and continued to learn and teach