What did you learn about this Frederick Douglass education?
“Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.”
We knew that education is vital to human growth. Education transcended Frederick Douglass from a slave to a free man.
Did he go to school?
No. Douglass learned to read as a child in slavery, taught first by Sophia Auld, the wife of slave owner Hugh Auld.
Did he go to college?
No. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), while a brilliant man, never attended college.