Read these sentences from paragraph 1.
lass
"now," said he, "if you teach that (slave]
(speaking of myself) how to read, there would
be no keeping him. it would forever unfit him to
be a slave. he would at once become
unmanageable, and of no value to his master.
as to himself, it could do him no good, but a
great deal of harm. it would make him
discontented and unhappy."
how are the ideas organized in the
sentences?

The ideas about which it has been described is if a "slave become literate he/she will refuse to work and will act as masters"

Explanation:

Douglass learns the white man's power comes from the ability to prevent education to the slaves. The excerpt expresses Douglass' understanding of how education empowers the literate person and by remaining illiterate, unable to read, the master keeps his power against the slave. Only those working under the christian instructors their owners allowed them to read they became literate. Various slaveholders were only encouraged literacy for the slaves as they needed one person to run or to work for them and also for some other reasons. Hence, teaching slaves were not encouraged.