In chapter 6, Douglass says that people slaves and slaveholders are affected by slavery, I believe its true. Douglass had a new Mistress who had never owned a slave before she was married and didn't know what would come of it. She had the heart made of pure gold, she didn't care if a slave would look her in the face. Her mere presence had put the stingiest of slaves at most soothing. All she was to him at the beginning was genuine smiles and the sweet sounds of her voice.
In “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, Douglass narrates in detail the oppressions he went through as a slave before winning his freedom. In the narrative, Douglass gives a picture about the humiliation, brutality, and pain that slaves go through. We can evidently see that Douglass does not want to describe only his life, but he uses his personal experiences and life story as a tool to rise against slavery. He uses his personal life story to argue against common myths that were used to justify the act of slavery. Douglass invalidated common justification for slavery like religion, economic argument and color with his life story through his experiences torture, separation, and illiteracy, and he urged for the end of slavery.
Through Frederick Douglass’ autobiography you are able to see slavery in the 1800’s through a slave's point of view. When writing out his autobiography Douglass has the intentional goal to open people's eyes to slavery and its effects. Douglass wanted to show what the slave industry consisted of and how he managed to break free from the deadly cycle. I personally believe that through Douglass’ writing he was able to obtain his goal of enlightening his readers on slavery. Through Douglass’ writing we see how he witnessed of the hardening of hearts of his slave owners.
This semester, our class has read multiple stories that in some way relate to slavery. When people hear the word slave, they typically think of the Africans that were forced to do labor. But, there isn’t just one single type of slavery. Some forms of slavery are forced labor, human trafficking, arranged marriage, addictions, and even mental illness.
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave” is a recorded quote from none other than Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass, if truth be told, was a predominant piece that aided the abolitionist. A man who eradicated & assisted in ending the repulsive exploits of slavery. Nonetheless, he left us a vital part of himself. A narrative\biography of his time at the plantation along with being a runaway slave.
Frederick Douglass was a slave for many years. He suffered through abuse and cruelty from his slave owners. He was not considered a person, he was considered a piece of property. Douglass recounts his emotions on escaping slavery and arriving in New York in 1838. Frederick Douglass recalls his time in slavery and employs the use of similes and antithesis to convey his state of mind when recounting his escape from slavery.
Slavery-- in laconic terms-- is the censuring, and antipathy of a human just due to their skin color. It is macroscopic and patent that it is wrong but nobody will admit it. In The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, Frederick Douglass talks about the current state of the US and why The 4th of July means nothing to him. He is trying to convince the American people that celebrating the freedom of their country is ironic because everyone is not free as they claim. Overall, Douglass uses Word Choice, Emotional, and Ethical Appeal to support his claim that there should be no celebrating being a free country when all of the country is not free.
1. “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”- Douglass was determined to read and he did not use not knowing his mom and dad an excuse to be lazy. 2. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – Using her characters, Stowe displays how a mother should love their child in her characters. 3.
“Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass is a speech where Douglass uses some appeals to strengthen his opinion that the audience should not celebrate a free country when our country isn 't free, and censures the idea of slavery. Throughout Douglass’ speech, he uses great word choices to get the audience 's attention; And focus the audience 's attention on why he believes that 4th of July shouldn’t be a happy holiday. “The gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim”(Para.10). The author purposely uses these words to not sound callow.
“The more I read the more I abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery” (Douglass 24). This means when I read more books, I discover how slavery is bad for slaves and the slave owners are wicked and evil and all slaves should escape, or they will get treated cruelly by their slave owners. “After a patient waiting, I got one of our city papers, containing an account of the number of petitions from the north, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and of the slave trade between the States. From this time I understood the words abolition and abolitionist”(Douglass 25).
People today think slavery is a thing of the past, instead what if I said slavery still happens today. According to Global Citizen, the total slave estimation is 18,354,700 in India, that’s 1.4% percent of the population. India has different types of slavery, such as Agriculture, bonded labor, domestic work, and sex work. This is a problem because people are supposed to learn from their mistakes, but instead we are repeating the past. Frederick Douglass was a part of slavery, in the book Narrative of life of Frederick Douglass he was constantly held back by people of different color.
Free From Slavery, But A Slave To Freedom My Escape From Slavery by Frederick Douglass, is the story about Douglass’ escape from the grasp of slavery, into the world of the free man. However Douglass explains that the free life was not as free as slavery was. Douglass describes himself as “not only a slave, but a slave for life” (Douglass, 128).
Firstly, slavery changed the slaveholders. It brought out the worst in people. Take Mrs. Auld for example. When he first moved to Baltimore, Mrs. Auld was very kind and caring to Douglass and even begins teaching him to read, but she begins to change: “When I went there,she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman”(32). Unfortunately though, she becomes consumed by the curse that slavery is: “Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities”(32).
Slavery was as much a part of life in the 1800’s as technology has become in today’s world. All the brutal beatings, mistreatment, and horrid conditions for the slaves was the norm in the past. Luckily, there were many significant historical reforms and changes made by the government to remove slavery in America. In, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, the reader is exposed to the slaves preception of slavery, through various anecdotes. Upon reading, one may ponder how slavery in America would be today, if it was never abolished.
“Education and slavery were incompatible with each other.” It became a negative thing for Douglass to be educated especially about him being a slave. Knowing all this information was leading him to being sad, wanting to kill himself. 3) “It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but no ladder upon which to get out.” He knew he had rights and deserved to be free, but couldn’t do anything about it.
