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“From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.”
- Date
- 1845
Meaning of “From that moment, I understood the pathway from…”
Understanding why enslavers feared literacy revealed education as a route toward agency, turning reading into a concrete part of Douglass’s pursuit of freedom.
Where does it come from?
Narrative, Chapter VI; Douglass recalls hearing Hugh Auld argue that literacy would make him unfit for slavery.
