Fredrick Douglass

Role of Education

Frederick Douglass, born on 20th February 1818, in Talbot County Maryland between Holmes Hill Farms. He separated from his mother after his birth and sent to live with the children of his own age, who were not ready to work. His mother came to visit him whenever she gets time. During those years, he suffered from all the deprivations like other slaves. From the starting of a slave's childhood, experts educate their slaves about God. Slaves were notified that God made whites to be experts and blacks to be slaves. Young children were notified that slavery was for their own protection. This did not make sense to Douglass.

At the age of 5, he was sent to live with his grandmother Betty Bailey. He stated that his mother used to visit him frequently due to distance between the Lloyd plantation and Holmes Hill Farms. He last saw his mother when he was 7 years old. He was not informed of his mother death for a long time. After that the death of his grandmother, he moved with Anthony Aaron Wye House plantation, and after his death, he was given to Lucretia Auld who send him to Baltimore to Hugh and Sophia Auld.

At the age of 12, Douglass started his educational studies with Sophia. He admired Sophia for her kind and tender heart nature. Hugh Auld disapproved with the notion of teaching a slave as he would then preach for freedom. He learned most of the things through observations and work habits of white men.

By the age of 25, Douglass was as an African American slave, revolutionist in his own and became a social reformer, statesmen and the author. As he stated, “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it." He started ...