Question

What are two central ideas that you can draw from the section in which Frederick Douglass describes Mrs. Auld’s struggle with being a slaveholder?

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Answer 1

In the section where Frederick Douglass describes Mrs. Auld's struggle with being a slaveholder, two central ideas are presented:

Step-by-step explanation:

Mrs. Auld is initially kind to Douglass because she has never "owned" an enslaved person before and seems untouched by the evils of slavery.

Mrs. Auld's husband and her own experience demonstrate to her that education and slavery are incompatible with each other. She stops teaching young Douglass and prevents him from reading on his own.