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Margaret Crittendon Douglass (born c. 1822; year of death unknown) was a Southern white woman who served one month in jail in 1854 for teaching free black children to read in Norfolk, Virginia. Refusing to hire a defense attorney, she defended herself in court and later published a book about her experiences. [ 1 ]
(Anti-literacy laws also prohibited teaching antebellum slaves to read and write.) [4] Upon hearing why Hugh Auld disapproves of slaves being taught how to read, Douglass realizes the importance of reading and the possibilities that this skill could help him. He takes it upon himself to learn how to read and does so by playing games with white ...
Douglass, his wife, and his alleged mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes' Douglass' Women (New York: Atria Books, 2002). Douglass is the protagonist of Richard Bradbury's novel Riversmeet (Muswell Press, 2007), a fictionalized account of Douglass's 1845 speaking tour of the British Isles. [232]
Frederick Douglass taught himself to read while he was enslaved. [22] A runaway slave ad published in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1845 complained, "[Fanny] can read and write, and so forge passes for herself."
As seen in Frederick Douglass's own narrative, it was common for the literate to share their learning. [24] As a result of the constant flux, few if any plantations would fail to have at least a few literate slaves. Douglass states in his biography that he understood the pathway from slavery to freedom and it was to have the power to read and ...
During Black History Month, the New Bedford Historical Society will celebrate the connection between New Bedford and Frederick Douglass. One of New Bedford's greatest men: Frederick Douglass Read ...
In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, self-taught writer and abolitionist Douglass praises the book as his first introduction to human history and eloquence. When he was 12 years old and still enslaved , he bought a copy using 50 cents which he had saved from shining shoes , [ 1 ] and he "read [the essays] over and over again with ...
Rosetta Douglass-Sprague (June 24, 1839 – November 25, 1906) was an American teacher and activist. ... Abigail taught her to read and write, ...