After watching the movie answer the following questions
1. How does Frederick Douglass learn to read? Why does literacy become so important to him?
2. How do slave narratives recast the American ideal of the “self-made man” to fit African Americans? How does Frederick Douglass, for example, build on and transform the legacy of Benjamin Franklin?
3. How do slave narratives draw on the seventeenth-centucixry tradition of captivity narratives?
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