1.Education in the 1800s was not widely available as it is today, and it was even illegal for slaves to be taught how to read and write. How far did Douglass's 'mistress' go in teaching him to read?
2. What letters did Douglass first learn to write, and what did he write them with?
3. How long did it take Douglass to lean to write?
4. What were some of the "entirely new thoughts" Douglass had when Auld forced his wife to quit
teaching him (Douglass) how to read?

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

the correct answer is: the fact that the anti-federalist papers were considered poorly written.