Review Questions for Frederick Douglass

In two to three pages, review the slave narrative by Frederick Douglass.  Send your reviews to jevery1@verizon.net by 7:00 AM on Sunday, August 10.  Listed below are some topics that you can address in your reviews.

1. What was it like for a child to grow up in slavery?

2. From Douglass’s account, what was it like to be a woman living in slavery?

3. How did slave masters attempt to establish and maintain complete control over their slaves?

4. What type of community life existed amongst slaves?

5. How did Frederick Douglass assert his masculinity as a human being?

6. What was life like for slaves living in urban locations—in this case Baltimore—as compared to the lives slaves lived on plantations?

7. In the case of the white family that Douglass lived with in Baltimore, how did slavery even corrupt decent people who treated slaves kindly?

8.  What propelled slaves like Douglass to escape from bondage?  Why was it so difficult for slaves to escape?