This story is about a boy whose mother is a slave. He’s separated from her when he's only a few weeks old. After that his grandmother takes care of him when he is six his grandmother takes him to the plantation to work and leaves him there intentionally. He never recovers from this betrayal of abandonment. Later on, he sent to work for a ship Carpenter by his master. Despite a ban on teaching slaves, the Carpenter’s wife starts teaching him the English alphabet but soon her husband finds out and force her to stop teaching him. Determined to read and write he continues to learn from neighborhood White boys by giving away his food in exchange for lessons. As his knowledge and vocabulary grown, he begins to read newspaper and Political books. The more he reads, the more aware he becomes of the social injustice against him. One day he buys a copy of the Columbian orator a popular school book which helps him to understand the power of spoken and written words. He learns that edu