Frederick Douglass

“Quiet now, Frederick. Hush— don’t wake anyone. I’ll be here a just short while, then be on my way. Little Frederick had been asleep for a long time, and it was very dark. He was grumpy to be awake. It made him realize that he was cold, and hungry, and that there was gravel pressed into the skin of his leg so hard it was stuck there, and that the bottom part of his feet had started to bleed and ooze from the cold…”

So begins the first of five vignettes in the Frederick Douglass series. Each story in this series is written on a two-sided sheet of paper, and is accompanied by illustrations, a map, and a writing reflection page. The core element of each vignette is a series of “character questions,” designed to have students think more deeply about virtue and vice in the man Frederick Douglass.