My Bondage and My Freedom – Flashcards
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What was his main goal of this
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To abolish slavery
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What was his method
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Hold the slave owners as victims instead of the bad guys
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Douglass was a space for who's family
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The auld family
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Describe Mrs auld in the begging of the story
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Very kind hearted person who taught Douglass how to read and treated his as a real human should be treated
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Describe Mrs auld by the end of the story
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Evil and stopped treating him like an actual person
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What happened to Mrs auld
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She became corrupted by slavery
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What is Douglass trying to accomplish by using slave owners as the victims
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Trying to persuade slave holders t abolish slavery by displaying how evil they can turn
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Mrs auld was Douglass how to read but who made her stop
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Her husband checked her back into place and she stopped teaching him and wouldn't allow him to be taught at all
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What did Mrs auld have to convince herself
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That Douglass wasn't a real human being
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Slavery and being a slave owner is so what
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Unnatural it makes you corrupted
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She can't convince herself of what
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That Douglass is not a real human being so she's fighting with her own soul and conscience that it's okay and she is victorious
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What happened to her soul
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She wages war against her soul and Her Nobel soul was finally overthrown
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When Douglass arrived in the family what was the atmosphere like compared to now
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Went into the family the atmosphere was so happy and since Mrs auld was so sweet the house was so happy because she listened to her conscience but when slavery corrupted her it took all her tenderness and she became miserable and do did the house and the atmosphere
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Mrs auld had to convince herself of what
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That she was doing the right thing
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Despite Mrs aulds attempts to stop Douglass from reading what happened
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He had already gotten involved and so invested in education that he couldn't be stopped and since he had already tasted education he wanted more
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What does Douglass get the young white kids to do for himself
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To teach him how to read and in turn he game them food
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What did the young white kids think of slavery
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They thought it was wrong and they condemn it because they are young and haven't been corrupted by slavery yet but when they get older sadly they will
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He purchases what book
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The Columbian orator
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Douglass was miserable which made Mrs auld what
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Mad because she couldn't have that because she was trying to convince herself that it's alright what she's doing and she's fighting her conscience and seeing him like that is miserable
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Douglass desire for freedom won't let him be what
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Be a compliant Slave
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The only thing that will free Douglass and Mrs auld is what
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The abolition of slavery
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What is his goal of this
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To show the slave holders they are the victims and they will be the ones corrupted by slavey
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13th amendment
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Abolition of slavey
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14th amendment
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Everyone is a citizen born in the US
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15th amendment
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Suffrage for slaves
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Who persuaded Mrs auld to stop teaching Douglass to read
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Her husband
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Douglass says that initially it was difficult for Mrs auld to forbid him an education. She had to have "some training and some hardening" to make her able to do what
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To make her equal to forgetting his human nature and character and to treating him as a thing destitute of a moral or an intellectual nature
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What is needed in entering upon the duties of a slave holder
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Some little experience is needed
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Which figure of speech is Douglass using in saying "some little experience is needed"
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Verbal irony
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What has nature not prepared men and women to be
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Slaves or slaveholder
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What is required to perfect the character of a slave or slaveholder
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Nothing but rigid training
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What is it a person cannot easily forget
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To love freedom
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How can freedom not being easily forgotten affect a slaveholder
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The slaves might not work as hard because all they can remember is their freedoms
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Mrs auld is "singularly deficient" what is it difficult for her to do
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Nature had not taught her how to be a slaveholder do that was difficult for her
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Mrs auld underwent a " mighty struggle with all the noble powers of her own soul" to Come to what conclusion
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She started to treat him as a brute and as a real slave
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Mrs aulds "_________________" was overthrown
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Noble soul
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What is it that the "conscience cannot stand"
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Much violence
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What violence did Mrs aulds conscience undergo
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Slavery taking away her happiness and her hart undergoing much violence
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What figure of speech does Douglass use "her abuse of me fell upon me like the blows of the false prophet upon his ass"
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Literary allusion to the bible
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What is the angel that stood in Douglass way
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The angel of knowledge
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What did this angel make impossible
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Though he is being beaten by his master he is still pushing through and still pursuing because he's had a taste of freedom and knowledge already and he can't seem to let that go so even though Mrs auld is beating him the Angel of knowledge is in the way
