Texas EOC English 2: 4.1 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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All right why is the author reluctant to give all
of the details about his escape from slavery and hear
the potential answers pretty logical that you won't hide that
so others could follow behind him getting caught but let's
go yeah douglas holds back on the details of his
escape plan because option b is very very wrong Frederick
definitely didn't think that other slaves should say to escaping
slavery and we're pretty sure he thinks they oughta put
it at the top of their to do lists if
possible Joys d is way off the mark too In
general douglas isn't worried about creating a sense of mystery
this's a slave narrative not a james patterson novel we
can see how somebody might be fooled by a douglas
does disapprove of the way the underground railroad makes its
escape methods public however he doesn't actually disprove of the
underground railroad itself he applauds it we'll see is the
right answer Douglas basically says that giving details about his
escape would be like giving slave owners a how to
manual for preventing slaves from escaping let's all be glad
that these days such a book would not topped the 00:01:29.982 --> [endTime] best seller list Who