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Fredrick Douglass Portfolio Questions
Answer these questions in your Course Portfolio as you read and study this work.
- Douglass’s first three paragraphs, on his age and his parents, introduce immediately the theme of identity and the way the slave system operates to deny slaves an identity. Explain.
- Douglass, throughout his narrative, keeps us simultaneously aware of his past and present selves. Trace this awareness through representative passages, perhaps the accounts of slave songs in Chapter 2 and of his treatment as a child in Chapter 5.
Have a clear understanding of the introduction of the work
Know all the famous people (orators, authors, etc.) that the autobiography mentions
Know all the masters and overseers
Know about him working, his trade, etc.
Know about how he learns to read
Know about his escape (including the failed attempt)
Know all of his and other slave’s mottos/idioms/sayings that are mentioned
