Marriage on the plantations of Samuel Scott was a business decision. Ultimately, slave owner’s business interests were that the slave population increase. Large slave families create a large workforce and of course a larger profit margin for the slaveholder. Slaveholders determined which couple might produce more offspring.
When a slave master moves the slave has to move to . Secondly , Dred scott moving to a free state. John Emerson took Dred Scott to a free state of Illinois . Emerson moved to a fort in Wisconsin territory taking Scott along .
Now Thomas Auld is Douglass’ new master and he was not a kind man. Thomas was actually a poor man who steals and the only reason he has slaves is because he inherits them, and he loses them because he doesn’t maintain them. Douglass said that he became a religious man but that didn’t make him any nicer, when he would whip the slaves he would actually recite the scriptures. Fredrick and Thomas did not get along and they both knew it. Thomas believes that Hugh and his family spoiled him too much and that he is not a good slave so he sends him to Mr. Covey who is a “slave breaker”.
Douglass belong to a well off family. The woman of the house thought him how to read and write some things. Until her husband found out that she was teaching him, then she suddenly stopped and was angry at Douglass, when he was reading. They felt like he would listen to the Irishman when he said “They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.” After losing his only source of teaching he resorted to the lest fortunate white kids for help.
After reading, “ The Exert from Fredrick Douglass”, I learned more about the thoughts of a slave named Fredrick Douglass. This has also expanded my thoughts about the history of slavery and how it affected people. Douglass was a slave who belonged to a man named Hugh Auld in Baltimore. Douglass was a lot different from other slaves, because he knew how to read. Douglass first began to learn how to read when Auld’s wife started to teach him.
African-American slaves were forbidden to obtain the knowledge of being able to read or write, stemming from the fear of white masters that educated slaves will overpower them. Douglass managed to learn to read by bribing poor and hungry white boys into teaching him in exchange for bits of bread. Douglass illustrates his thirst for literacy through “[The] bread [he] used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give [him] that more valuable bread of knowledge” (pg 23). This reveals how much Douglass valued education and took advantage of all the knowledge he had access to. Today’s youth, especially the ones belonging to a minority
Lastly, Douglass’ explains his thought on slavery and from what he says it becomes ironic. One of the ironies in the book that Douglass talks about is how religious slaves are more cruel than non-religious slaves. In chapter 9, Douglass’ master, Thomas Auld, became
Would you expect a young, black, educated slave, to be a leader of one of the most bloodiest slave rebellions ever? On October of 1800, Nathaniel “Nat” Turner was born a slave on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, VA. He was allowed to read, write and learn religion (“Nat Turner”). Samuel Turner was in a lot of debut so Reverend Zalthall set up appointments for Nat to preach to slaves from plantation to plantation. The slave owners hoped this would make their slaves want to work willing and to be obedient.
Douglass tells about his own childhood and how his father might have been a slaveholder. He explains
In the 1800s, for a slave to know how to read and write was not only unheard of, but illegal. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in rural Talbot County, Maryland. For about seven years, he received reading lessons from his mistress Hugh, but that all changed as soon as she commenced her duties as a slaveholder. The once kind hearted woman was changed into a woman to be feared. She stopped teaching Douglass how to read and would monitor his whereabouts in her home to ensure that he was not reading anything.
This shows that the way a Master behaves around a slave can be very influential, and Douglass explains that he was compelled to give all his hard-earned money to Master Hugh because the influence the Master had on him was to give him everything he worked hard for. Next, on page 10 of his Narrative, Douglass proclaims, “They never knew when they were safe from punishment. They were frequently whipped when least deserving, and escaped whipping when most deserving it. Every thing depended upon the looks of the horses,
Before they were sold to other slave owners, they had a free life with their family. To support this explanation, on page 433, there is a quote that is talking about a male slave who got separated from his family. It
Many people have heard that women in the seventeenth century had little to no rights, and that would be almost correct. In Amsterdam, women had more rights than most of the women in Europe at the time, which really, was not much. An unmarried woman had more freedoms than their married counterparts, but being unmarried in this century still had downfalls. If an unmarried woman never wed or had children in her lifetime many people considered it to be a waste of her life. An unmarried woman was allowed her own property and businesses but if she was to ever marry, then the husband would assume ownership of it all.
When Douglass was younger Mrs. Auld would teach Douglass grammar everyday, but when her husband found out then he got mad and said, “The first step
After the death of his owner Aaron Anthony, Frederick was sent to live with his grandmother. Then, Thomas Auld, Douglass’ previous owner son-in-law, became his master. Afterwards, Thomas sends him to his brother in Baltimore. Douglass refers to this as of a “divine providence”, for that here Douglass found a slavery that was not as the one in the plantation, where a slave would
