literature help

https://learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/slavery-and-freedom/?jwsource=cl

Answer the following questions as they relate to the movie you watched this week:

1.  How does Frederick Douglass learn to read? Why does literacy become so important to him?

2.  How do slave narratives recast the American ideal of the "self-made man" to fit African Americans? How does Frederick Douglass, for example, build on and transform the legacy of Benjamin Franklin?

3.  How do slave narratives draw on the seventeenth-century tradition of captivity narratives?