Book Review: Enslaved By Home Protection By Mr. Solomon Northup

Decent Essays
Enslaved by Home Protection In the book Mr. Solomon Northup talks about how he was a free African American man who was kidnapped and thrown into slavery. He was enslaved for 12 years. He went from master to master. He found that some masters were kind and some were just cruel. He was torn away from his family. He kept hope alive that one day he would escape and would be able to see his family again.
This book relates to my topic because of how Mr. Northup was enslaved by merciless people and how in today’s society people are still enslaved but instead people are enslaved by different things such as guns. People today feel as if they need some type of protection in order to feel safe. Mass shootings happen so often that it seems to be a regular

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    The memoir of Jasper Rastus Nall, “Freeborn Slave: Diary of a Black Man in the South” is unique in that it offers an exclusive viewpoint even among the variety of critically acclaimed historical novels of his time. It includes an assemblage of both first and second-hand accounts by Nall of his and his family’s history. Although the novel shows shortcomings in Nall’s biases and a few stories that depart from the motif, its true strengths are in the book’s organization, its honest account of what it was like to be a black man in the south, and its competency depicting Nall’s confidence in the value of education. The author’s tone in recounting these stories reflect his determined, frank, and serious nature with intelligible language easy for the reader to understand. Nall’s writings are composed matter-of-factly and there is no further embellishment beyond what is necessary for his stories, giving the reader a sense of assurance in his veracity.…

    • 1490 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Africans Were the Animals in a Barn Remember when times were rough for those of a different race who had no rights like white men and women. Slavery began when African Slaves were brought into Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The staple crops of tobacco, sugar, and cotton were high in demand from the people, which meant those on plantations down South need laborers. As time went on, Northern states became free states, but as you go further South, slavery is in the deepest darkest moments for the Africans.…

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, reads an incredible story of one man’s struggle to become a free from the bonds of slavery. Experiencing his hardships and celebrate his triumphs along the way, the story saddens you with the cruelty of humans, but leaves you crying for joy. Written to prove a well-educated black man was indeed a slave and even with a life riddled with trials and tribulations he roses above and succeeded in obtaining his dream of being a freeman. Fredrick Douglas was born a slave and as a small child he was unable to work in the fields and spent a lot of his days wondering around the plantations where he lived.…

    • 966 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    When people learn that an education can give them freedom, power, and knowledge they can conquer any problem that comes their way. People should be responsible and take advantage of the free K – 12 education that everyone is given in the United States. People are also able to receive a free college education if they qualify for the Pell grant assistant. I know this is not available for everyone but if you do receive it do not waste that opportunity. It seems the people that are being restricted from receiving an education are the ones determined to do whatever it takes to get an education so they can improve their lives.…

    • 1120 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Slave or a Slaveholder Frederick Douglass, a victim of slavery, was taught to read and write by his Master, Mr. Auld’s wife, Mrs. Auld. This was before her husband forces her to stop the lessons and go against her nature. Douglass’s newfound knowledge only leads to his hopeless understanding that he is trapped forever. Slavery hurt slaves more than slave owners in many effects. Although the slaveowner is pressured to have slaves and act a certain way to African Americans even if it's not what they believe, it appears more true that Frederick had it shockingly harder.…

    • 568 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The slave system dehumanized slaves, made them have no self-consciousness of human being. He pointed out slaves did not enjoy much privilege. They do the labor work all season, but received limited supplies and necessities; they lived under an extreme poor condition place, each covered a miserable blankets and sleep on the cold, dump flood in all season (Douglass, Chp 2). They were afraid of telling the truth about their masters. In south slaveholders’ mind, slaves were product and tool of laboring for support slaveholders’ living.…

    • 1246 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglass effectively shows readers the hardships slaves had to live with on the road to freedom. From the faulty idea of a “romantic southern image” to the unfortunate slave-on-slave betrayal, Douglass debunks these ideas and blames them for the inability to improve the slave’s well-being and the societal ignorance regarding southern conditions. Several epiphanies, such as his new knowledge of the north and realization of slavery’s malice, motivated Douglass and filled his heart with determination to focus his train of thought towards freedom. Despite the many difficulties, he made it there. Douglass rebukes the romantic image of slavery by using vivid imagery to describe the horrors of his everyday situations…

    • 1045 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Douglass wants readers to understand how the power of knowledge was key to overcoming the terrible tribulations of slavery. Countless of times Douglass thought acquiesce was the only was he was going to make it though slavery alive. Instead the thought of freedom was overpowering. With the use of imagery, symbolism, and situational irony, he shines light on his unimaginably, gruesome, dehumanizing experience as a slave; allowing readers to undergo his journey to becoming educated with him.…

    • 771 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Slavery’s roots have long been a part of the America’s past, and continue to play a role in its development. Though many slaves suffered for their entire lives, some few were fortunate enough to get that taste of freedom they so deserved and shape their new lives in the direction they desired. In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Frederick Douglass examines the elusiveness of freedom through his transformation from an ignorant slave-boy into a knowledgeable and self-aware man. Frederick Douglass examines the ever-eluding ideas of freedom through symbolism, education, and how to move forward once one has attained this freedom.…

    • 1622 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    As Northup recollected, it was only after the paddle broke and his enslaver seized a rope to continue beating him that Northup was finally silenced into accepting his new identity as a slave. In these scenes of brutality, Northup insisted such sadistic events were so traumatic that he could still feel them while writing. “I thought I must die beneath the lashes of the accursed brute. Even now the flesh crawls upon my bones, as I recall the scene. I was all on fire.…

    • 1261 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup For centuries, slavery infected America like a plague. It claimed the lives of innocent black men, women, and children and turned them into mere objects to be bought and sold as their masters pleased. Most submitted to their pale-skinned masters, while others risked their lives to desperately escape captivity. By the 1800s, many had had enough. They could not bear the crushing oppression any longer.…

    • 1434 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In America there practically is a mass shooting every day according to a mass shooting tracker. Where more than four people die in one incident. This is not even taking into account the number of accidents and gun related violence that result in the death of less than four people. America cannot go on like this. The very things we buy to protects ourselves are the things that our killing us.…

    • 800 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout all of history, as early as records show, only one slave revolt was successful; the Haitian Revolution. This rebellion was unique and complex, which is why it was so auspicious. The Haitian revolution was so successful because of the large ratio of slaves to white men, the experience slaves had with rebellions, the preoccupation France had with its homeland and, the slaves finally had allies to revolt with. Imagine being worked close to death every day in the blistering heat, waiting your entire life for the one day you can pay off your debt and be a free man.…

    • 1176 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    In order to have a good understanding of the world around us and in society, one must have a basic knowledge of their surroundings. During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, slavery was a thriving concept in the United States. Slavery was particularly prominent in the southern region of the United States from the boom of the cotton industry. Many people have told stories through the grapevine that have impacted those who have listened to the trials and tribulations that slaves went through during this dark period in United States history. However, some people who were slaves had the ability to give a perspective that most slaves could not give.…

    • 1171 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Freedom is an important idea. It is a common goal for everyone at some point. “For to be free is not merely to cost of one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enchanges the freedom at others” (Nelson Mandela). Freedom is hard to achieve at times but if you really want it, you will fight for it. If not you will just have to wait until it comes to you, that is if it can.…

    • 1264 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays