Education Inspired Frederick Douglass was an African-American man born into slavery in the year 1817 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Talbot County. Enduring the struggles and hardships living as a slave he would eventually escape and become a leader of the abolitionist movement. “Without a struggle The power of an education on reading and writing would soon lead him to a life of freedom. In the 1800’s the Dorchester County Courthouse was a place where slave auctions were held and where I choose to read chapters one and seven from his book, “Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.” Knowing of slave auctions that took place here gave me more insight on what I was reading about. While I read the courthouse was very quiet at times and seeing big time lawyers, police officers, and plaintiffs of black and white race walking by, was a very different scenario than it was back then. I could only imagine the chaos that took place here and how horrible it would have been to witness segregation and humans being sold at these slave auctions. As I read, one of the passages that I was very saddened by was how the infants of slaves were separated from their mothers so they would focus on work and only work. Only seeing his mother four or five times in his life he never really knew her as a mother. Never seeing her in daylight she would take a walking journey of twelve miles to where he lived and laid with him till he fell asleep. She had to be gone by the rise of the sun to be on the field or a penalty of a whipping. I as a mother could not imagine my child being taken from me in the same circumstance someone else raising her and the forever lasting impact it would have, to never really know me as a mother. For Frederick Douglass education meant freedom. Learning how to read and write on his own is very