Frederick Douglass stated that learning how to read had been more of a curse …show more content…
He started to learn to write at Durgin and Bailey’s ship yard. The passage states that at the time, his copy-book, or his notebook, were either a board fence, brick wall, or pavement. His pen and ink were a lump of chalk. With these materials, he used the marked letters on timbers being transported to different location to learn the names of it. Like when a timber was marked “L”, it was going to the larboard side, and “S” was for starboard side. He would then practice writing what the letter spelled and would met with any boy to show them his