Answer: Douglass learns to read when he is sold as a young man to the Auld family in Baltimore.
Explanation: He is taught by Sophia Auld, his master's wife. ... If keeping slaves ignorant was the key to keeping them docile, then he would rebel by learning to read, even though (or, as he observes, because) his master forbade it.
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Since the renaissance was a rebirth of Roman and Greek culture, and the center of the Roman Empire was in Italy, it had to begin somewhere in that region. The region was very wealthy with trade and had much power and a lot of intellectuals in and out of the church. This all made it possible for it to begin.