Frederick Douglass Research Paper

In the book of Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” it narrates the life a young black slave to a mature man who gets his freedom. The story of Frederick Douglass is a story to admire, yet hard to understand and believe that for many decades slave like Douglass was a norm. In the early 1800’s when Douglass was born it was inevitable, if you were born a black African American boy or girl you inherited to be a slave. He was born in a slave plantation, where they work for hours of the day with little to no food to survive, minimal clothes and poor sheltering. Slaves in the 1800’s were beaten for any reason or no reason, the power the white men had was like beating an animal. In this difficult and inhumane life that

Hugh Auld. For Douglass this was one of the most important moments in his life. He was joyful to leave the plantation, it was almost a gift for him. He believed that he would still be a slave for the rest of his life if he had never moved to Baltimore. Douglass states, “Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.” (Douglass V). Even at such a young age Douglass was already believing that he would not be a slave for the rest of his life. Sense and faith would give him hope to survive the hard

The Irish sailors told Douglass he should run away, since he was a slave for life. “They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.” (Douglass VIII) He ignored the sailors and continued to show them no interest, since Douglass explained, white men were known to do treacherous things to find slaves who were traitors to their masters. This moment was an important moment for Douglass though, “but I nevertheless remember their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.” At this time Douglass Is twelve now, a bit older and a lot smarter now, so the crazy idea to be a free man from a young age was becoming more of a reality and attainable goal now, especially from that day. This led to his real first act of resistance and mentality change. While they sailed back to Baltimore from Maryland, Douglass unlike any other time paid real close attention to the route of the ships heading to Philadelphia, heading north, which route they took to plan his