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Frederick Douglass Sound Like Criminals Analysis

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After reading the excerpt from Frederick Douglass, I learned the unethical, criminal nature of slavery and enslavers. I now understand the reason why Douglass wished to be an animal. In the narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass…, he recalled one of Sheridan’s speeches. He remembered reading text about immorality of slavery. Douglass was very interested in the text so he read them over and over again with nonstop interest. Douglass understood that the power of conscience of even a slaveholder. In the narrative, it says that the reading of the documents enabled him to utter his thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery… Why did Douglass make enslavers sound like criminals? Douglass wanted what the enslavers
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