A Slave's "Right"

“Seized with a determination to learn to read, at any cost, I hit upon many expedients to
accomplish the desired end” (Douglass, “Bondage” 461). Frederick Douglass had the fire
and determination unforeseen by any other person of his time. It was unprecedented for a
black slave to read and write just like a white child. “.... or when play time was allowed
me, I would step, with my young friends, aside, and take a lesson in spelling. I generally
paid my tuition fee to the boys, with bread, which I also carried in my pocket. For a single
biscuit, and of my hungry little comrades would give me a lesson more valuable to me than
bread”(Douglass, “Bondage” 461). The lessons he bought paved the future for his
distinctive writing techniques. Douglass’ descriptive writing style can persuade the reader,
and command the vigilance of any person.
In Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, and American Slave he descri...