Access to education is a fundamental right. It is what contributes to our ability to

sustain communities, cities, and countries. During the pre-civil war period, the right to an

education was restricted to only white people. This meant white society could enjoy and

reap the benefit of an education while others like Frederick Douglass were forced to

endure a life of slavery. It was not only culturally acceptable for blacks to be forced into

hard back-breaking work, but this was all they knew growing up; in a life of slavery. The

life of bondage into which Douglass was born taught nothing to him other than of

slavery's brutality and ruthlessness towards human beings. Uneducated, he remained

After Frederick was born, he worked for Captain Aaron Anthony. A cruel

man who worked his slaves on the plantation hard and treated them like animals. A good

example of this was the fact that, along with the de-humanizing conditions slaves faced,

they were also forced to eat their cornmeal mush from a trough. Animals and slaves were

treated in similar ways. In the mindset shared by the ma

conceiving the idea of freedom. As a young boy, Frederick Douglass learned that there

could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege." (p. 19). Pigs,

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