Theme Of Ignorance In Frederick Douglass

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Douglass lets the reader know that he escaped through the Underground Railroad, but fails to reveal the details surrounding it. He does this because he wants to protect the future slaves so that they can escape without being confronted by people ready to catch them. By not letting on the route to which he escaped or how he is robbing the slaveholders and slave catchers of this knowledge, therefore leaving them ignorant. This is something that Douglass is trying to subtly hint, that if you are robbed of your knowledge, you are robbed of your power. This is almost a way for Douglass to get back at every slaveholder and master who used ignorance to dehumanize him and other slaves, he is using ignorance so that they will want to know the secret