Discussion - Reading Response

HYPERLINK "https://barry.instructure.com/courses/1590521/discussion_topics/7658129?module_item_id=16807481" Collapse SubdiscussionKristal ThomasKristal ThomasWednesdaySep 11 at 5:38pmManage Discussion Entry1. I believe that Douglass anticipated his audience to be anyone willing to read the reminiscence of a former slave. Douglass details the stratagems he developed to learn how to read and write, giving the reader a sense of the difficulty of his path to literacy and the significant role literacy plays in the freedom of slaves. Douglass seems to assume the reader knows at least the basics of slavery because he does not explain every detail of his experience and instead focuses on the aspects relevant to his journey to become literate.2. Douglass seemed to be captivated by books about freedom from slavery. Douglass believed that he would be a slave for the rest of his life, but the books he read echoed some of his own thoughts about freedom and empowered him to take interest in human rights and the end of slavery. Sheridan's speeches about the end of slavery compelled Douglass to give a voice to his thoughts instead of silently wishing for freedom.Early in his memoir, Douglass mentions that "education and slavery were incompatible with each other" (Douglass, 2018, p. 78), and he declares