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Frederick Douglass and the Literacy Narrative — Homework
Reread the assigned Douglass Narrative excerpt before answering.
- 1.Why does Hugh Auld's warning that literacy would make Douglass "unfit to be a slave" become the turning point of Douglass's account?
- 2.Describe one specific method Douglass used to teach himself to read or write.
- 3.Name one feature the slave narrative genre developed to authenticate itself to a skeptical readership.
- 4.Explain why Douglass's restrained, precise writing style functions as part of his argument, not just as a stylistic choice.
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain what it says about a society that a formerly enslaved author had to prove his own eloquence just to be believed.
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