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who began his life enslaved and without the possibilities of learning to read and write,
realized that his path to intellectual freedom lay in the power of literacy. Thus, he began an
insatiable quest to learn all he could and through whatever resources he encountered. In chapter
7, Douglass realizes that the poor white boys in the street could provide literacy lessons in
exchange for bread.
As his abilities in reading and writing increase,
Douglass'sincreases in complexity. Consider the following passage:
Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious,
warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorry or suffering for which she had not a tear.
She had break for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came
within her reach. Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly
qualities.
Douglass uses strong and precise adjectives,
such as injurious , to project not only a voice for...
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