No More Peck 'o Corn

3. Why wasn't Fredrick Douglass aloud to read? 

When Fredrick first joined the Alud household, he developed a strong desire to read and Sophia Alud taught him. When Sophia told her husband about how far along Fredrick was coming he got mad at her and said, "Learning will spoil the best ****** in the world". Slave owners liked to keep their slaves uneducated because with education could come resistance. "To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one... He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery," explained Fredrick. For a slave to be submissive to their owner, they have to make them think that being a slave is all they ever will be and that's okay.

4. Why were the slaves viewed as child like?

Blacks were thought of as immature, indolent, good-for-nothing, simply unfit, naturally lazy and childlike. They were never referred to as men or women, always boys and girls.  These stereotypes were linked back to the assumptions that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. "Evidence" of blacks inferior intelligence was supported by the research of Dr. Samuel Morton who measured the cranial capacities of the skulls of whites and blacks. The whites were bigger so they thought that they were more intelligent.

5. What is the difference between how southern and northern blacks were treated?
Southern blacks were almost always slaves that were treated inhumanly by their owners. They worked sunrise to sunset (sometimes longer), they were beaten and that the slaves were brainwashed into thinking that they were racially inferior to whites. In the north, whites were racist towards blacks and a lot of the time blacks couldn't find jobs because people didn't want black people working there. Even though slavery wasn't allowed in the north, blacks were still considered inferior to whites and it was very hard for them to live there