The Life of a Slave in the South A slave in the south lived a hard life to say the least. Life on the plantation was very difficult and the life of slave was filled with numerous debilitating and devastating aspects. Being born into slavery Fredrick Douglass gives a raw view of inhuman and horrible business of the slavery. Through his narrative Fredrick Douglass highlight numerous Debilitating and devastating aspects of slavery. According to Douglass the most debilitating of these where the inability to develop an identity, the living condition and most of all the cruel punishment/treatment. Douglass being born into slavery really felt the full force and effect of slavery. He was molded to be a slave from the …show more content…
Fredrick Douglass under extra ordinary circumstances and luck managed to escape the debilitating and devastating effects of slavery. Slavery being so debilitating tested even the strong will of Fredrick Douglass. Douglass even after being educated still felt the chains of slavery. It was through such masters like Mr. Covey that moved him past his breaking point. “My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellectual languished, the disposition to read departed the cheerful spark that lingered abut by eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!” (Douglass 81). Slavery was very much a dark place with little to no hope besides the allusive freedom. Slavery through its numerous divesting and debilitating aspects broke down people in a dehumanizing process. However, tides where about to change and Douglass would be a key advocate in the abolitionists movement. He would be a major figure in showing that African American could integrate into the normal world. Slowly things where beginning to shift and many n north agreed of the unjust treatment of slaves in the South. Things in America where about to be shaken up and change was