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Frederick Douglass cleverly tricks the white boys into teaching him new letters by appealing to their sense of superiority. He pretends to be interested in their games and manipulates their desire to display their knowledge, convincing them to teach him the alphabet. By framing the learning process as a way to show off their skills, he successfully gains access to literacy while also undermining the social hierarchy that kept him oppressed.

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