Abstract
Let me begin with an incident out of the life of Frederick Douglass. The young boy Douglass had just been sent away from the plantation to the home of Mr. Hugh and Mrs. Sophie Auld of Baltimore, MD. There, he was to be the slave and companion of the Aulds’ young son. Shortly after Douglass arrived, his mistress discovered that he could not read, where upon she determined to teach him to do so. When Mr. Auld discovered this practice, he forbade it.