The Song Of Life By Frederick Douglass Analysis

I like how the author uses the songs the slaves signed to show their emotion. People who knew nothing of the slaves that listened to them sing, thought it was evidence of their "contentment and happiness" said Douglas. That was the greatest mistake a person could conceive. When in reality the slaves would sing when they were most unhappy. The songs were song to express their sorrows from experience singing was the only thing slaves could do to express their feeling at heart. Douglas said, the songs would depress his spirit and filled him with ineffable sadness. No one of the 20 century would every understand or relate to the pain that the slaves went through back then. It's unimaginable to think that the only way that I would be able to express the sadness in my heart would be to sing. Having no control of what you can do or say, really damages your emotions. When people usually feel a certain type of way in this century whether their

How a person was treated with discuss because of the color of their skin. Or how a person would look forward to being killed? People should be appreciative about the things they have now, always be thankful. Putting myself in that type of situation would be like a guy trying to relate to a female giving birth. Its hard to relate to a person that spent their whole life being owned by another person. This narrative describes the years he was sold to one person to another, and the pain of having to go to see people he cared about be whipped and tortured. At times Douglas found himself regretting his own existence, and wishing himself dead, or wishing he was killed. A man that went through all his of suffering and still has hope of being free. He wrote about his life to share it with others, to not only say he understood the struggles of slavery but to say that his has as well went through the pains of