Based on this passage, and what you know of Douglass's viewpoint, what message does Douglas
want to convey?
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The first step in her
downward course was in her casing
to instruct me. She now commenced to practice her
husband's precepts. She finally became even more violent
in her opposition than her husband himself. She was not
satisfied with simply doing as well as he had commanded;
she seemed anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to
make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper
She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had
her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch
from me a newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her
apprehension. She was an apt woman; and a little
experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that
education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass