Examples Of Injustice In Frederick Douglass

Injustice is a prevailing theme in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Tubman, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, Spider Woman’s Web by Susan Hazen-Hammond and Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell; the diligence of several characters in these stories and narratives has made it possible for them to preserve and overcome injustices. The United States has not always been a land of the free; white settlers destroyed the meaning of freedom when they stole lands from the indigenous people. Freedom was also destroyed when black people in America were not treated as full human beings. Despite of the many obstacles the oppressed faced, their thirst for freedom and determination led them to

Douglass is born into a life of slavery and barely was able to spend any time with his family. He was raised like an animal; he walked around with no shoes and was not fully clothed. His feet were so cracked on the bottom that he could lay a pencil inside the cracks. While his masters walked around bundled up in the winter, Douglass walked barefooted and barely clothed. This example shows the dehumanization of the oppressed as well as the dehumanization of the oppressors. In treating slaves like less than human beings, slave-owners were seen as cruel, malicious and

Eventually karma caught up on them and there was no healer to cure the sick in the village. There is always consequences when something is done out of spite to someone in Spider Woman’s Web; there is no way of escaping the harm one had caused on another. Women were the rock to the indigenous people of the land in America, and the newcomers did not understand the rules that were already placed; the medicine men wanted to impose their own rules. Sometimes the whites were successful at getting what they want, but in stripping the indigenous people from their rights they also dehumanized themselves. Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell is a collection of Native American speeches discussing the oppression Native Americans experienced under white men. Red Jacket’s speech in Sagoyewatha exposes white brutality upon Native Americans; white men have not only stripped them of their lands, but they also forced them to practice a different religion. Red Jacket also points out that Native Americans welcomed the newcomers with open arms, and in return they experienced hatred, torture, and violence. The land Native Americans worked hard on to build was now assumed by whites to be