Page 50. EX.9
1. When they convince young people of the value of education, teachers often tell the story of Frederick Douglass's life and many acomplishments.
2.Frederick Douglass(1818-1895) was a famous African-American speaker, editor and statesman who started out life as a slave.
3.The woman he served started to teach him the alphabeth but her husband insisted that she had to stop, because teaching a slave to read was against the law.
4.After having ceased teaching him, she worked hard to make sure he didn't learn anything more.
5.Frederick Douglass, however, already, desperately was wanting to learn to read.
6.He made friends with the poor white boys who had lived in the same neighborhood.
7.While he was running errands, he tradedsome food for a quick reading lesson and still made it home at time to avoid suspicion.
8.Douglass didn't said these boy's names in his autobiography, because he didn't want to cause them trouble.
9.Douglass taught over forthy slaves to read, until their masters found out and violently broke up the lessons.
10.Today, Frederick Douglass has become one of the most well-known american of the Civil War era.
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