Summary Of 'The Native Of Frederick Douglass'

From the reading of Fredrick Douglass, The Native of Frederick Douglass, the writer himself exposes the reader to the life of the slave and some of the things that had to endure during this era of history. Douglass, African American, made a huge impact on the people during the nineteenth In this reading, it also reveals some of the methods that slaveholders would use to keep the slaves submissive. The goal of this writing to name and reflect on the diffferent ways that the slavehholders used to keep their slave submissive. You will learn about two of the ways that slave holders used.
Keeping slaves ignorant was a way that slave holders kept slaves submissive. If you have a person who isn’t knowledgable and posses understanding, then it makes them to be dependent on another person. In the text written by Fredrick Douglass, he explanins it felt to once had the opporunity to learn how to read and then have that right taken away from him. He was first taught by the wife of the slave owner, when he was about seven years old. Due to her lack of knowledge about owning slaves, since this was her first time owning

Since they did, they often used the scripture to justify slavery. Since slavery was justified to them, they saw no wrong in beating people until they were bleeding or even to the point that flesh was gone. Slaves were allowed to receive religious teaching, but they couldn’t be on the plantation were they worked. In an article written by Peter Randolph, he references the sermons that were preached to the slaves (Randolph, The Difference betwee the Christianity Taught by Masters and Preached by Slaves) . Sermons were geared to servants obeying your masters. So, the slaveholders used things like as justification for whipping and beating the slaves. In their minds, God’s was saying that you are slaves are being disobedient to the commands of your owner, then you should be