Hunger for freedom “I have observed this in my experience of slavery,-that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free”(Douglass,pg.104). Have you ever been told that the only thing that you are good for is for free labor and that being alive is a privilege because of you honestly not even worth as much as you think because you 're not even counted as a human? That was pretty much what the three fifths compromise were saying, but let 's not get into that.What Douglass is trying to express in this passage is that once you get a taste of freedom and independence, you want more and more of it, but it is not as easy are just saying I want but more of the challenges you have to overcome all throughout his life as an African American slave ready to make a change in the world.
Douglass starts talking about how he became an expert in using a mallet and iron , how he started his own business and how he finally had the sense of freedom and even if he was a free colored man, he was and will always be "The black guy who is still this worthless man who belongs in a field." Even as he was earning his own money he still felt the obligation to pay his his master Hugh the little money he receives a week ,not because he feels the need to compensate what he has done for him nor because Master Hugh is the one who labored for the money, but because he had the power to tell him to give it to him. Just. Like. That.
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