From there, Douglass was “given” to Lucretia Auld, whose husband, Thomas, sent him to work with his brother Hugh in Baltimore. Douglass credits Hugh’s wife Sophia with first teaching him the alphabet. With that foundation, Douglass then taught himself to read and write. By the time he ...
Douglass plotted to escape north by taking a large canoe up the coast of Maryland and to proceed to Pennsylvania, but their plot was discovered. Douglass and the other participants were arrested. Captain Auld then sent Douglass back to Baltimore to live again with Hugh and Sophia Auld and to...
When Douglass was eight years old, he was sent to live with Hugh Auld, a ship carpenter in Baltimore. It was there that he learned to read, which was the most important skill he mastered during childhood. When he was about twelve, Auld's wife, Sophia taught Douglass the alphabet; unfort...
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. As a boy he was taken away from the Great House Farm to Baltimore, as the family servant of Thomas and Sophia Auld. Later he was hired out to work on plantations across the Bay, but i...
When Anthony died, Douglass was given to Lucretia Auld, wife of Thomas Auld. She sent Douglass to serve Thomas’brother Hugh Auld in Baltimore. When Douglass was about twelve, Hugh Auld’s wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach ...
Douglasslearned to read as a child in slavery, taught first by Sophia Auld, the wife of slave owner Hugh Auld. And when she stopped the lessons on her husband's orders, Douglass found other people to help him learn – and learned on his own. ...
When Douglass was about twelve, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read. When Hugh Auld discovered her activity, he strongly disapproved, saying that if a slave learned to read, he would become dissatisfie...
Because of this, he did not realize at first that someone owned him andthe others.In 1826, Frederick was sent to work for Hugh Auld in Baltimore Maryland. Mr Auld's wife, Sophia treated him asifhe were a member of her family. Mrs. Auld soon began to teach Frederick toread. Her ...
frederick was sent to baltimore to work for hugh auld, captain anthony's relative by marriage. at first, he was treated with great kindness by sophia auld; her husband, hugh, however, eventually disapproved of sophia's attempts to teach frederick how to read and write. such skills, he reas...
1836Makes an escape plan but is discovered, jailed, and then released. He returns to work for Hugh and Sophia Auld in Baltimore and is hired out to work as a caulker in a Baltimore shipyard. The knowledge he gains there helps him escape slavery two years later. ...