| A | B |
| master | the owner of the plantation |
| overseer | the person in charge of slaves |
| treatment of the slaves | cruel |
| trough | where slave children were fed |
| abolitionist | Frederick Douglass |
| Frederick's wife | Anna |
| She taught Frederick to read. | Mrs. Auld |
| a trade he learned | shipbuilding |
| a book that influenced him | The Columbian Orator |
| Douglass' newspaper | The North Star |
| the war between the states | Civil War |
| American President | Abraham Lincoln |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared freedom for the slaves |
| the country to which Douglass fled | Ireland |
| one who works to learn a trade | apprentice |
| a large farm | plantation |