Question

Read these sentences from paragraph 1.

Answer 1

Answer:

The ideas about which it has been described is if a "slave become literate he/she will refuse to work and will act as masters"

Explanation:

Douglass learns the white man's power comes from the ability to prevent education to the slaves. The excerpt expresses Douglass' understanding of how education empowers the literate person and by remaining illiterate, unable to read, the master keeps his power against the slave. Only those working under the christian instructors their owners allowed them to read they became literate. Various slaveholders were only encouraged literacy for the slaves as they needed one person to run or to work for them and also for some other reasons. Hence, teaching slaves were not encouraged.