Learning to Read and Write

by Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass uses his prologue to give the readers a different view of what was going on in his past in the book Fredrick Douglass writes, “This bread I used to
bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable
bread of knowledge.”(4) Fredrick explains that he would take bread from his masters home and exchanged it to the little white boys who gave him knowledge and taught him how to read and write. African Americans were not allowed to be taught how to read or write like the white folks. This prologue is an eye opener because we wouldn’t see that these days its great that most things have changed for the better . It also shows how important it is to learn how to read and write and we are lucky to have the chance.