Frederick Douglass’ “Learning to Read and Write”

After you have read Frederick Douglass’ “Learning to Read and Write” post a well-developed, 1-paragraph response to each prompt below. Always be mindful of unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills (grammar & usage, punctuation, spelling). Therefore, ensure that your response contains a main idea, relevant details, examples, and evidence from the text:

1. Douglass says, “The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.” Write a detailed explanation of the main idea that the author is conveying. Explain ideas such as what is the “silver trump of freedom” for Douglass? Why does he use this term? What is a “trump”? Why silver? What does he mean by “eternal wakefulness”?

2. Building from the idea conveyed by Douglass, write a detailed paragraph explaining how the idea that you discussed above relates to you. What is your “silver trump”? How can it both enlighten your life and impact others in society?