Justice is described as a behavior or treatment, “a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people.” Fredrick Douglass describes justice as the need to be equal with everyone, for black slaves to be freed and equal with their masters. Jean-Jacques Rousseau stated that justice is the way the state creates equality through keeping even strikes throughout society. Fredrick Douglass and Jean-Jacques Rousseau agreed on many points throughout their narratives about true justice and the equality of men. Fredrick Douglass’ governmental views were similar to that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by the very fact that they believe that governments should treat their citizens equally, even those of a different skin tone. Gaudence Megaro writes
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Daryl Scott writes in his essay “Their faces were black, but the elites were untrue” that though African Americans were enslaved the “aristocrats” had no right to imprison other human beings, blinded by riches the ‘wealthy’ slave holders saw human beings as no more value than the flower vase. Those slave holders blind as they were, knew somewhere in their hearts that Rousseau and Douglass were right, maybe that is why most slave holders were aggressive, as a sign of power, ‘watch me beat another human being down to the ground so I can be exclaimed as master!’. Adebayo Williams in her essay “of human bondage and literary triumphs; Hannah Crafts and the morphology of the slave narrative” she writes that some white slave owners would write the memoirs of their black slaves to gain popularity with their slave population, and then later try and publish them under pen names. This usually ended in family shame and having a whole community attack them personally, or have their slaves hung for ‘disrupting the common sanity of the white owners’. Rousseau and Douglass would have addressed this as a shameful act as well I believe, it was well within their rights to do those things, but at the same time it denied another the chance to create their own story and send it to the world how they
Daryl Scott writes in his essay “Their faces were black, but the elites were untrue” that though African Americans were enslaved the “aristocrats” had no right to imprison other human beings, blinded by riches the ‘wealthy’ slave holders saw human beings as no more value than the flower vase. Those slave holders blind as they were, knew somewhere in their hearts that Rousseau and Douglass were right, maybe that is why most slave holders were aggressive, as a sign of power, ‘watch me beat another human being down to the ground so I can be exclaimed as master!’. Adebayo Williams in her essay “of human bondage and literary triumphs; Hannah Crafts and the morphology of the slave narrative” she writes that some white slave owners would write the memoirs of their black slaves to gain popularity with their slave population, and then later try and publish them under pen names. This usually ended in family shame and having a whole community attack them personally, or have their slaves hung for ‘disrupting the common sanity of the white owners’. Rousseau and Douglass would have addressed this as a shameful act as well I believe, it was well within their rights to do those things, but at the same time it denied another the chance to create their own story and send it to the world how they