How is education related to human freedom, in the autobiography of Frederick Douglass?

Education was probably what was stopping the slaves from revolting. They were not educated enough to know about what life was like when you're not someone's property. If the slaves were not educated it would be much easier for the masters to control them. If slaves were educated, like Mr. Douglass, they would have a higher chance of escaping, because they would think it through and not just run. You could also think of freedom of the mind with this. If slaves were educated they would have a higher chance of not giving in to propaganda from their masters. Their masters could tell them that they are being treated great and they might believe it, unless they were educated.

Why is the ability to read and write a statement about freedom?

The ability to read and write, or the ability to be educated should be a basic human right. When you are taught to read and write you feel as if you can connect to others in a way that is new. You can write to someone about how bad you are being treated, or you can read about how to escape slavery. So now not everything has to be done in person and it makes it easier to get away with things. For example: on page 51 when they were trying to escape, Frederick made letters from his master saying they were permitted to be traveling on the river. It was a very smart and sneaky thing to do, if only they weren't caught. The ability to read and write relates to freedom in two ways: you can achieve freedom because you were educated and know more than people think you do, or it relates to freedom of the mind, you can understand things better, so if something were to happen you could know what was going on.

Why were slave families separated?

Slave families were separated so that they could have no hope in the world. The masters would not want them to be hopeful because then they might try to rebel and try and escape. If they have no hope they'll just keep their head down and work until they die, and that's exactly what the master wants. This made the slaves feel less human, not knowing your family would make anyone feel like less than human, or that they don't belong. Masters had many tactics to keep slaves feeling hopeless, like how they don't tell them their birthdate. They would think that if they die, who would really care? For the masters this is what they want, they want the slave to be dreadful and not disobey orders and to feel like they're not human.

MFA connection to Ancient Lyric Poetry

This is an amphora, or something used to hold liquids. On it shows a fight between two warriors, one young and one older. The younger warrior strikes down the older warrior. This could easily relate to epic poetry, which is a characteristic of Ancient Lyric Poetry, because epic poetry is about great deeds done by men. This could be considered a great deed if the younger warrior was the hero in the view of the maker. This could also relate to Lyric poetry in the way of expressing personal emotions, the Warriors could be furious with each other and wanted the other one dead. Or they could be fighting over who gets a certain thing like: land, a hand in marriage, or just because they are being forced to fight.

Comparing two Ancient Lyrical Poetry

This poem is by Tyrtaeus:

Let a man learn how to fight by first daring to perform mighty deeds,
Not where the missiles won't reach, if he is armed with a shield,
But getting in close where fighting is hard to hand, inflicting a wound
With his long spear or his sword, taking the enemy's life,
With his foot planted alongside a foot and his shield pressed against shield,
And his crest up against crest and his helm up against helm
And breast against breast, embroiled in the action--let him fight man to man,
Holding secure in his grasp haft of his sword or his spear!

The second poem is by Mimnermus:

What is life, what is sweet, if it is missing golden Aphrodite?
Death would be better by far than to live with no time for
Amorous assignations and the gift of tenderness and bedrooms,
All of those things that give youth all of its coveted bloom,
Both for men and for women. But when there arrives the vexatiousness
Of old age, even good looks alter to unsightliness
And the heart wears away under the endlessness of its anxieties:
There is no joy anymore than in the light of the sun;
In children there is found hate and in women there is found no respect.
So difficult has old age been made for us all by God!

These two poems are both very interesting. It seems as if the first one is talking about fighting an how it should be done in thee poets eyes, and the second one is talking about the hard comings of old age.

The first poem seems much more understandable, like if I were to read it once I could probably understand what it is saying. But, the second poem uses much more figures of speech to keep it more secure from the readers. At least that is what I understood from this.

They were both written around the same time and in the same area,  yet these two poems are very different. It shows how they were very advanced for their times.