<span>Assuming you are referring to Frederick Douglass. He had an estranged relationship with his Former owners the misses of the house all though she taught him the basics of reading he was still a slave, additionally the Man of the house once he found out about this demanded she stop saying that " he could learn enough to want to be free"</span>
Make laws :3 (here are a some words because my original answer was *too short*)
The soil was held together by grass roots. It was called sod. Settlers were called sodbusters because they had to break through the sod to plant crops. There was not a lot of wood, so settlers used sod to build homes.
Apparatchiks or high government officials
