... his life as a slave, it is proven that his masters strongly opposed his wishes to become educated, for the very reason that he would begin to see things in perspective. In becoming educated, the enlightenment it brought, came as a great shock to him " it opened my eyes to a horrible pit, but ... no ladder upon which to get out " (Douglass 111). Though his early education was the source of his torment, it is what levitated him ... even worse as with marriage and child bearing, less and less was expected from women in general. She claims that such realisations are the driving force of the...

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