Angelica V
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did he ever go to high school and collage?
at what age did he learn to read and right?
at what age did he learn to read and right?
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Did Frederick Douglass have an Education?
- Thread starter Angelica V
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Sent to Baltimore in 1826 by his master's son-in-law, Thomas Auld, Frederick spent five years as a servant in the home of Thomas Auld's brother, Hugh. At first, Hugh's wife Sophia treated the slave boy with unusual kindness, giving reading lessons to Frederick until her husband forbade them. Rather than accept Hugh Auld's dictates, Frederick took his first rebellious steps toward freedom by teaching himself to read and write.
He obviously had some education, because he published a number of very eloquent books. But, as he was a slave, he would not have been allowed to go to school - either elementary school, high school or college. When and how he learned to read and write is not known, but someone must have tutored him.