Slave Perserverance: In The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass

Slave perserverance

The African descendants have been treated cruel and many of them tortured. The Africans at the time were had seen slavery before but not to this magnitude. The slavery in Africa does not compare to what they went through and seen across the Atlantic. To go through all that brutility and still have the will to keep going and fight day by day. The persevence of the Africans were strong as in, no matter what happened to them they would still continue to live. For hundreds of years Africans had to remain strong, so that their legacy would live on. This essay will tell what are the problems the Africans faced and how the perseverance. Before reaching the across the Atlantic the Africans, were treated cruel before even getting

From the cotton fields of the Americas to the Sugar plantation of Haiti the conditions were meant for the slaves not to survive. The average lifespan of the slaves was about 7-10 years, depending of were the slave was located. These slaves would work for 18 hours a day 7 days a week with no pay. They are working in the heat it did not matter, as long there was another day the slaves were working. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass "We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. Work, work, work, was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night. The longest days were too short for him, and the shortest nights too long for him…. Despite physically being broken, the slaves will and culture could not be broken. Some Slaves had the chance to be free in some circumstances but that chance was slim. A few ways a slave could become free was to pay to be free, if the slave had the many they could actually be there freedom. Another way is if the owner of the slaves wants one to be a free slave he can also do

As news spreads about black people being free in France and being equal, he felt like Haiti should be the same. For many years the French tried to fight against the Haitians but it did not succeed on many occasions. Toussaint during this would have to be the best general when it came fighting against the French and even Spain. French wouldn’t be allowed in Cuba and the USA, because it was embarrassing the Europeans and they didn’t want other slaves to hear that this black general being Europeans. In Haiti the slaves outnumbered the French 12-1 and their drive for freedom there was no stopping