Student Responses to Yesterday's Active Reading of Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Aaron Deck https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2022-02-01 15:30:56 UTC 2022-02-01 16:14:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Frederick Douglass once commented that "the worst part about slavery isn't the work or the whippings or the cold or the hunger or even the literal shackles. It's neither the blood nor the rapes. No, it's the compulsory ignorance, the full force of a system that understands slavery can only exist by the deprivation of learning, the absence, as it were, of light." adeck3 https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023607355 2022-02-01 15:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023607355 The passage in Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave states "White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters. " adeck3 https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023610069 2022-02-01 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023610069 Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery on September 3, 1838, aided by a disguise and job skills he had learned while forced to work in Baltimore's shipyards. Disguised as a sailor he jumped on a train headed North. adeck3 https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023614055 2022-02-01 15:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023614055 Douglass made the harrowing train trip to Philadelphia he was able to move on to New York City. "My free life began on the third of September, 1838. On the morning of the fourth of that month, after an anxious and most perilous but safe journey, I found myself in the big city of New York, a a free man - one more added to the mighty throng which, like the confused waves of the troubled sea, surged to and fro between the lofty walls of Broadway,” adeck3 https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023617232 2022-02-01 15:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/adeck3/5pgxg2og7dx8r5um/wish/2023617232