Kant states that to be an enlightenment thinker you have to think on your own and have your own ideas and thoughts. He states “The public use of one’s reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among human beings; the private use of one’s reason may, however, often be very narrowly restricted without this particularly hindering the progress of enlightenment”(Kant, 1798), he means that to encourage enlightenment in society freedom is enough and you have to go pubic with it so the ideas can spread instead of just keeping it to oneself because it can’t be spread and you can’t bring about change through the education which can’t or isn’t spread to others. This is contradicted by Douglass when he states that, “She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other” (Frederick, Chapter 7), so basically the woman says that a slave couldn’t be educated because those two things don’t compliment each other. These things both contradict each other because Kant says that to encourage enlightenment you only need freedom, but that isn’t true because you do need education to think whether its education from school, people, or experiences, but the woman said that education and slavery don’t go together meaning if you don’t have freedom your education is useless because as slaves they couldn’t even do anything with the education they got from their experiences. Even though slaves did get education, but there was no impact because they didn’t have freedom to spread it.