Describe three instances when Frederick Douglass gains more freedom even though he is not free.

Of course,
Douglass did actually become free, which was not the case for most enslaved people who lived and
died the property of another. But while enslaved, Douglass underwent several experiences that in
many ways made him feel more free.

One such event can be found in Chapter
Six, when Mrs. Auld, the wife of his new owner, begins to teach him to read. Just as the young
Douglass, still a child, is learning his alphabet and a few simple words, Mr. Auld demands that
his wife cease teaching him immediately. When a slave learns to read, Auld said, he is no longer
fit for slavery. To Douglass, these words had the opposite effect that Mr. Auld intended. He
realized that if reading was dangerous to the slave master, it was good for the enslaved man.
"In learning to read," he writes, "I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition
of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress." He describes literacy as a major
stepping stone on his path to freedom.

In fact, Douglass remembers being sold
to the Aulds, who lived in Baltimore, as bringing personal freedoms in itself. He writes that a
"city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation." They were
better fed, better clothed, and, because masters did not want to appear cruel in front of their
neighbors, they did not engage in the kinds of sadistic beatings that characterized life on a
plantation. While in Baltimore, he made friends with neighborhood children, walked the streets
of the town, and even came across books, like the Columbian
Orator, a collection of speeches about freedom that, he remembers,
"roused my soul to eternal wakefulness."

Another incident in which
Douglass asserted his freedom under slavery involved Mr. Covey, and is described in Chapter Ten.
Covey, who leased Douglass from his owner, was a brutal man who "worked" Douglass, for
the first time in his life, as a field hand on a plantation. He suffered many beatings, and was
more miserable than at any other point in his life under slavery. But eventually, after another
bout of severe abuse from Covey, Douglass physically resisted him, grabbing him by the throat
and wrestling him to the ground. After the fight, Covey never again bothered Douglass. The
incident was so important to Douglass that he began his description of it by telling his
readers: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
man."

None of these events in and of themselves made Douglass a free
man. But each was an example of a young enslaved man asserting his dignity against slavery and
against the people who attempted to rob him of it.

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