Error needs correcting In the third paragraph under the Life as a Slave section it says that Douglass called his slave owners lecture on why slaves shouldn t read the first anti abolitionist speech he had ever heard when he really called it the first anti slavery speech he had ever heard I could not find a web link to prove this but it is in his autobiography under the chapter learning to read It is not a paradox he is simply pointing out that hearing such talk about slaves and keeping them stupid only reinforced his belief that slavery was wrong and slaves should be free making it an anti slavery speech to his ears Please change the first anti abolitionist speech to the first anti slavery speech Preceding unsigned comment added by 19 35 9 October 2009 Welcome and thanks for wanting to improve the accuracy of this article You don t need a web link but you do need to provide a reference for this change If you look at the common fields in wp cite book you will see the information that is required The page number and ISBN allow someone to quickly verify the information Thanks Thank you for the welcome The book is the autobiography of Frederick Douglass In my library it is called The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass but this site calls it The Narrative of Frederick Douglass The chapter is called Learning to Read Also Thank you for not correcting a BLATANT fucking error Continue to make wikipedia a useless resource due to it s errors Welcome to real world knowledge wikipedia is a useless piece of shit due to people like you The book The life and times of Frederick Douglass his early life as a slave his escape from bondage and his complete history shows ThePATH420 to be right on page 50 I ll change the article