1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Basile [38]
3 years ago
5

How does Douglass’s cultural point of view as a slave from the early 1800’s shape his motivation to become literate, yet also cr

eate obstacles for him? Provide at least two examples from the text. Write at least a 100-word response.
English
1 answer:
Sladkaya [172]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

Explanation:

Literacy plays an important part in helping Douglass achieve his freedom. Learning to read and write enlightened his mind to the injustice of slavery; it kindled in his heart longings for liberty. Douglass’s skills proved instrumental in his attempts of escape and afterwards in his mission as a spokesman against slavery. Douglass was motivated to learn how to read by hearing his master condemn the education of slaves. Mr. Auld declared that an education would “spoil” him and “forever unfit him to be a slave” (2054). He believed that the ability to read makes a slave “unmanageable” and “discontented” . Douglass discovered that the “white man’s power to enslave the black man” was in his literacy and education. As long as the…show more content…

Reading opened his eyes to his “wretched condition”  and he longed for independence and freedom. He did not desire this for himself alone, but also for his fellow slaves. He “imbue[d] their minds with thoughts of freedom” and sought to “impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery”

You might be interested in
Read the sentence. She lived in Senegal for a year, she learned French there. Choose the best correction for this sentence with
MaRussiya [10]

Answer:

She lived in Senegal for a year; she learned French there.

Explanation:

since it wanted a comma splice i belive this to be the right answer

8 0
2 years ago
Which of these is a correct use of parallel structure?
Sergio [31]
I think it’s option b
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Locate the complete infinitive phrase and identify its use. The best topic to write about is one you know well.
Mumz [18]

An infinitive phrase is a group of words introduced by "an infinitive", This group of words may function as a noun, adjective or adverb. In the following example the infinitive phrase is working as an adjective, since it modifies the noun "topic".

<em>The best </em><u><em>topic</em></u><em>   </em><u><em>to write about</em></u><em>   </em><em>is one you know well.</em>

<em>               noun   infinitive phrase</em>


8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Mercury is a very small planet, with a surface that is exposed directly to space. This is because the planet has practically no
aniked [119]

because Mercury is the closet planet to the sun

7 0
3 years ago
What is 1,467 divided by 20? Please put the remainder.
ehidna [41]
73.35 That is the answer 


6 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • What are two primary purposes of a literature review paho?
    15·1 answer
  • Results of the studies done with plants are comparable to similar things that have happened in animals" mean?
    6·2 answers
  • How does Odysseus display the characteristics of an archetypal hero in his encounter with the cicones
    14·1 answer
  • Question 7 of 10
    9·1 answer
  • Read the passage:
    12·1 answer
  • What happens if we don't follow rules ?
    6·2 answers
  • Which ones are the stressed syllables and which ones are the unstressed syllables
    9·1 answer
  • Read the sentence. The suspect insisted the detectives were barking up the wrong tree. He explained that he’d been busy at the t
    10·2 answers
  • Insert the one comma 10 points
    9·2 answers
  • What was one of Steinbeck's primary purposes for writing The Grapes of
    15·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!