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What Is Frederick Douglass's Guilt

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Frederick Douglass was born sometime around the year of 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He was born into slavery on a plantation owned by Colonel Lloyd. Though born into slavery, Douglass does not have to work in the fields and does not get punished. Not only did he not know who his father was, but he also was not given the opportunity to build a relationship with his mother. He only saw her a few times and when she passed, Douglass was not allowed to go to her funeral. Douglass thinks this way of life is normal and does not know he is a slave and what being a slave involves. When he is seven years old, Frederick is sent away to work with different masters in Baltimore. This is where Douglass begins to learn how to read. His new master’s …show more content…

Himself, along with a group of slaves decided to plan their getaway. Their plan was to steal a small boat and row up north, pretending to be fisherman. However, when the day came for them to leave all of the slaves were caught and tied up. Douglass assumes that one of the slaves became overcome with guilt and confessed their plans to their master. Though Douglass states this, he never tells who may have betrayed him and the group. After being held in jail for a few weeks, Frederick Douglass was sent to Baltimore to build ships. He was confused but somewhat excited to be moving closer to the north. Douglass enjoyed working on the shipyard and appreciated the fact that black and white people were working together. However, that quickly came to an end when the white workers attacked him. Enraged, his master decided to have Douglass work in his shipyard as a calker. Once he came to the realization that douglass was very good at this skill, he started to rent him out to others. Douglass was making a good amount of money but was upset that at the end of the day he had to give all of his earnings to his …show more content…

Millions of Africans were abducted from their homeland and forced to endure months of inhumane conditions aboard slave ships. Once they met their destinations, they were sold like animals and forced into chattel slavery. That thought is a powerful one intiself. However, the next thought, “you shall see how a slave was made a man” is what made this quote so famous. This describes an uprising that was soon coming. For Frederick Douglass this would be standing up and fighting his master to let him know that he will no longer be tolerated being treated like an animal. With respects to the abolitionists movement, this quote is not a cry for help. This quote is telling the abolitionist that the slaves are taking a stand. The abolitionist were in the position to change things more efficiently than slaves could. This quote can be viewed as the slaves saying we are standing with you and will no longer take this treatment, but will help fight for emancipation. In my opinion, this statement speaks to both the overall theme of this autobiography and as a motivation. The overall motivation of this book was to teach people of slavery and also to inspire

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As time went by, Douglass’s friends were let go, until only he remained. Finally, Captain Thomas Auld came and took him back to Hugh Auld in Baltimore. He told Douglass that he was to learn a trade. He was hired to Mr. William Gardner, who worked as a ship-builder, and would teach Douglass how to caulk. In the shipyard, White men and Black free men worked together, but after a time, the white workers grew tired of working together.

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Isidore E. Sharpe Professor Tracy Moore HIS 104: American History 22 November 2017 Summary Paper on The Peculiar Institution, and an Age of Reform Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland into slavery, in 1818. He was the son of an unidentified Caucasian man and an African American mother.

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Fredrick Douglass was born Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey, in Maryland in 1818 to Harriet Bailey. There were two mysteries surrounding Fredrick’s early life: one, the actual date of his birth and two, the identity of his father. Even though his father has not been confirmed, it is believed that Douglass’ father was Harriet’s slave master. At the very tender age of ten, Douglass’ mother died suddenly. Shortly after her death, Fredrick was sold to Hugh Auld, where he began working on his plantation.

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First Douglass writes about his relatives who were still being held by his old master. He begs Thomas Auld to tell him how they are doing and set them free. However, this is not enough so he asks his master how he would "look upon me, were I, some dark night, in company with a band of hardened villains, to enter the precincts of your elegant dwelling, and seize the person of your own lovely daughter, Amanda, and carry her … make her … compel her … place her … disregard her … feed her … and so on" (105). This is an important rebuttal which asks not only his master, but oppressors in general to imagine the reverse, where they are the ones being treated like that. It allows them to think about what it would be like were they in the same position as Frederick Douglass and his fellows.

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This excerpt from “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"—Frederick Douglass’s autobiography published on May 1st, 1845—tells the story of Douglass’s life shortly before and following his escape from slavery and explains Douglass’s belief that slavery has detrimental effects on all parties involved. He utilizes a variety of rhetorical devices, including repetition, imagery, and analogy, to depict the powerful emotions and hardships he encountered on his path to emancipation. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in rural Maryland. He spent many years enduring the torture that comes with enslavement. He was subjected to horrible injustices, witnessing and often experiencing the cruel treatment of the enslaved.

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Because of this, he successfully creates a contrast between what the slave owners think of and treat the slaves and how they are. Douglass says that slave’s minds were “starved by their cruel masters”(Douglass, 48) and that “they had been shut up in mental darkness” (Douglass, 48) and through education, something that they were deprived of, Frederick Douglass is able to open their minds and allow them to flourish into the complex people that they are. By showing a willingness to learn to read and write, the slaves prove that they were much more than what was forced upon them by their masters.

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