Think of a time, when you felt discriminated against or even felt cheated. Now compare that petty fault with the brutality of the treatment of American slaves. The dealing with the slaves is one of the most wicked acts in world history. However there were two man who tried to do something about that, these man were Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was a freed slave and a profound abolitionist, Twain on the other hand was famous white writer. They both expressed their feelings through books as Mark Twain wrote the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in a story about Huck Finn and his adventures leading him to realize important things. Whereas Douglass spoke his autobiography called the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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Huck views white as the superior race and views black people solely as property. In the beginning of the book Huck and his friend Tom sneak out and want to have fun. Tom wants to tie up a slave named Jim for fun, but Huck does not want to because “he might wake and make a disturbance and then they’d find [Huck] warn’t in.”(Twain 15) Huck’s response to tying a human being as a joke is not that this is morally wrong and bad. But that the slave might wake and Huck would get in trouble. Huck has no problem tying this man but he might get in trouble. So Huck feels that playing a joke is harmless since black people are only property. Huck demonstrates this after Jim risks his life for Tom he says “[Huck] knowed he was white inside.”(Twain 287) Huck’s little comment infers that because Jim did a good act that he was white inside. Huck saying Jim is white on the inside implies that white folk are better than black people in all …show more content…
Douglass says that slaver is due to “all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”(Douglass 89) He is criticizing that the way the religious slaveholders act. He is saying that if they were really Christians, they would not own slaves. He is also saying that the religious do not deserve to own slaves because of who they profess to be. From what Douglass has seen and experience, he comes to the conclusion that he “therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land.”(Douglass 121) Douglass here goes into more detail about specifically what the slaveholders do. All while saying they are Christians, yet because they whip and plundering. They are hypocritical because Christians profess the name of Jesus and live for God. Yet these slaveholders say one thing and basically do the
Huck views white as the superior race and views black people solely as property. In the beginning of the book Huck and his friend Tom sneak out and want to have fun. Tom wants to tie up a slave named Jim for fun, but Huck does not want to because “he might wake and make a disturbance and then they’d find [Huck] warn’t in.”(Twain 15) Huck’s response to tying a human being as a joke is not that this is morally wrong and bad. But that the slave might wake and Huck would get in trouble. Huck has no problem tying this man but he might get in trouble. So Huck feels that playing a joke is harmless since black people are only property. Huck demonstrates this after Jim risks his life for Tom he says “[Huck] knowed he was white inside.”(Twain 287) Huck’s little comment infers that because Jim did a good act that he was white inside. Huck saying Jim is white on the inside implies that white folk are better than black people in all …show more content…
Douglass says that slaver is due to “all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”(Douglass 89) He is criticizing that the way the religious slaveholders act. He is saying that if they were really Christians, they would not own slaves. He is also saying that the religious do not deserve to own slaves because of who they profess to be. From what Douglass has seen and experience, he comes to the conclusion that he “therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land.”(Douglass 121) Douglass here goes into more detail about specifically what the slaveholders do. All while saying they are Christians, yet because they whip and plundering. They are hypocritical because Christians profess the name of Jesus and live for God. Yet these slaveholders say one thing and basically do the