Frederick Douglass's Narrative Of The Life Of Slaves

In the days of slavery, a lot of people were impacting different ways, one way it impacted slave owners was morally. A example was Sophia Auld it was not until slavery came that she became immoral. Another thing that was affected was people’s social life or who they talked to, people started associating with people more like them most commonly slave holders. And the last thing affected was economical effects, the only people that had money was the slave owners and slaves had nothing. According to Frederick Douglass in his book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” he tells how slavery changed people to the extreme and it basically changed the south as a whole. He was a slave during this time and knew how it felt to be a slave and saw what went on in these times. Firstly some people think that slave owners had a good life because they had free labor and had freedom to do as they pleased. But Douglass on the other hand had a different opinion on that, he thought that all of the free labor and treatment to the slaves just hurt the slave owners morally. It made the slave owners look bad and gave people a bad impression on them as a whole. A quote that supports this is “As if whips, chains, thumb-screws, paddles, bloodhounds, overseers, drivers, patrols, were not all indispensable to keep the slaves down, and to give protection to

People got greedy and some thought they were better than others which was wrong especially in this time. The one major thing was how the slaveholders treated the slaves, when they beat or whipped the slaves this hurt them socially because of how they were treating another human being. A quote that supports this is “The head, neck, and shoulders of Mary were literally cut to pieces.” This shows how cruel slaveholders were to the slaves and how they really treated