Did Frederick Douglass's Freedoms To Have Taken Away From His Family

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; An American Slave is the autobiography of the titular slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The novel chronicles his life from his childhood on a Maryland plantation to his eventual freedom as an adult. Douglass published the book in 1845, going into graphic detail when describing the horrors and injustice he witnessed in order to show the average american what slavery really was. Slave Girl in California is an article about an egyptian girl who was sold into servitude by her parents to pay off a debt. A girl named Shyima became the domestic servant of the Ibrahim family in Egypt when she was 8. She was sold by her mother thinking that she would help the family and have a better life;

In the first chapter of N.F.D, Frederick Douglass recounts how slave children would be taken away from their mothers when they were infants. During most of his early childhood,Douglass was cared for by a stranger ,and was visited in the night by the woman he didn't know was his mother. Douglass laments that when his mother did die he felt “the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger”, meaning that the separation destroyed any chance of an emotional bond with his mother. Also slaves themselves were separated from “normal’ American society . Douglass recalls slaves being forced into small buildings to live, being under constant monitoring by masters and others, and being punished or killed should they wander off. This same theme is also present in the slave girl article. In the third paragraph, details emerge about Shyima’s early life after being sold to the Ibrahims. Soon after being, sold Shyima was forced to move out of her home to stay with the Ibrahims and to care for them and their home.. She wasn't allowed to call her family even after she moved to America; but when she was freed she did call them.The only problem was that they blamed her for ruining their deal with the

In the slave girl article, Shyima is found in 2002 by the police after a neighbor reports something going on in the Ibrahim's house. The Ibrahim's attempt to cover it up by saying she is a part of their family, but when detective question their children and find discrepancies in their stories, they take Shyima into protective custody. Shyima is allowed to call her parents, but to her surprise they rebuke her. Shyima makes the decision to start a new life in America while the Ibrahims are charged with involuntary servitude and forced labor. They are then ordered to pay Shyima $76,000 in reparations; later, they are deported and justice is served for Shyima. However in N.F.D, in both Douglass's retelling and while he is writing the book in 1845, american slavery is still legal. Cruelty towards slaves goes unpunished and murders are thrown out or not even taken to court simply because the victims were slaves. In chapter 4, 4 differnt murders take place, one of which involves overseer Gore, and another involving Douglass' sister in law. Each murder is never taken to court and the worst punishment anyone receives is a slap on the hand given to Mr.Gore by Lloyd. Another case of injustice in the same chapter was when a man in the town near the Lloyd planation was bragged about killing two slaves with a