FD ch. 7-9 Study Guide

During this period of Frederick's life, who were his teachers? And how did he "pay" them for their lessons?

poor white children and he paid for them buy giving them bread

About 3 1/2 years after first going to Baltimore, Frederick is forced to return to the plantation where he was born. Why?

Because Captain Anthony dies and he had to be sent back to the plantation for a valuation so that all of the captain's property could be appraised and divided up among his relatives.

Look back at your answer to number 1 in the first section of this assignment. Why do you think that Frederick's mistress was so concerned about him reading this kind of publication?

Because it would show him the news and all the bad things happening to the slaves.

Because he feels what he says in the quote in number 3, Frederick envies his "fellow-slaves" for what? And wishes that he were either _________ or________

He evenvies them for their stupidity.

When he returns from Baltimore the second time at the end of chapter 8, what is Frederick's one regret?

He regrets that he did not least to try to run away

Why is Frederick suspicious of the two Irishmen he meets unloading a boat at one of the Baltimore docks? As a result of his conversation with them, what does he decides to do?

The two irishmen advised him to run away to the north, but he suspects something because white men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters. He decides to look for a time which he could escape.

With what rhetorical question does Frederick end his discussion of his grandmother's fate?

Will not a righteous God visit for these things?

After she decided that he ought not to read, nothing made Frederick's mistress in Baltimore angrier than to see him with.....

a newspaper

What is the meaning of the term "abolitionist?"

a person who is in the movement to end slavery

Fill in the blanks in this quote: "I would at times feel that learning to read had been a ___________ rather than a __________ ."

curse and blessing