"How does Mr. Auld's treatment of slaves, as depicted in the excerpt, affect Douglass?

"Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful as well as unsafe to teach a slave to read. He said, if you give a slave an inch, he will take an ell. A slave should know nothing but to obey his master - to do as he is told to do. Learning would spoil the best slave in the world."

"From that moment I understood the pathway to freedom. It was just what I wanted, and I got it at a time when I the least expected it."

Question 1 options:

Douglass witnesses brutal abuses of other slaves, and that motivates him to take revenge on his masters and all other slaveholders.


Douglass witnesses brutal abuses of other slaves and knowing that he will soon enter this life as he grows, he becomes interested in education (learning to read and write), escape, and abolition.


Like most slaveholders, he does not educate them, which prompts Douglass to learn to read and write.


Douglass vows to write down all he knows to share with others to know.