What Is The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas A Wicked Man

The Wicked Men Frederick Douglass was an African American slave who experienced and saw treacherous acts of hate the white slave owners and people inflicted upon other unfortunate slaves. He wrote about these horrendous experiences in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” where he tells us about his life as a slave. In the narrative Frederick Douglass had two types of feelings towards the white slave owners in his life; first was fear and finally, it was loathing them. At the beginning of his life, Douglass fears the white slave owners because he is just a helpless child with no one to protect him. The white slave owners did not care if they tore families apart and were satisfied as long as they got the slaves they needed. He was only five years old until he got sold off to be a slave to work on a plantation. Douglass was not alone however and had a younger brother with him as well. The Douglass brothers' time together ended shortly and was very tragic with Fredrick’s brother being brutally murdered in

Douglass’ master stopped teaching him how to read and became cold-hearted. “Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of the tiger-like fierceness”(Douglass 37). Douglass had eventually taught himself how to read and one day while reading “The Columbian Orator” He found out the truth about why he was a slave. “...a band of successful robbers, who left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery”(Douglass 40). After finding this out Douglass is disgusted with the slave owners and says “I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men”(Douglass 40). Anyone, if they were stripped away from their homeland and forced into slavery, would be furious as