Sage griffee
Miss Harrison
ELA
10/23/16

Why is the ability to read and right a statement about freedom?

In some parts in the book it is mentioned that these slaves were treated a property. They were treated and valued the same as horses and sheep. Reading and writing often can mean education, something that the slaves did not have. So when a slave knows how to read and write it shows how he/she broke this enslavement, and are looked at as more than property. They are looked on differently. When Fredrick Douglass was first getting taught to read his teacher was scrutinized. His master said that he would get the idea that he was a free man. This in some cases is true. Knowing how to read and write is rare for these slaves and it can sometimes be viewed as freedom.