Experience Accommodating Slavery

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.” (Douglass 58) Slavery was a system to imprison one from believing that they were once free or had the opportunity to be. Furthermore the relationship between the master and slave was all about learning and playing the card one was given or one would create. There is a method to slavery and this paper is the harsh realities of what it costs. Expecting the possibilities of getting out of slavery unscathed is virtually impossible, which then inclines protecting one’s physical being or their humanities is vital. Only there’s one issue, an individual must determine from these methods of slavery which one is least obstructive to their life. With this one can gather that the direction one chooses will always come with grave and fatal risks. Nevertheless slaves still make their lethal decision though given their circumstances it seems quite predictable what one will choose. Seeing the influences and experiences …show more content…
This is resulted from the foundation one build throughout one’s life, which goes back to the influences and experience one has. It’s almost like a science, learning about your relationship to your master, gaining and the exposure of knowledge, and the amount of courage one chooses to reveal. This is all about playing the game of slavery in a slave culture. The scary decisions one must make by choosing to be safe or fight for freedom. One would think fighting for freedom and education is the obvious choice but given the circumstances, it is clear that this way is not always worth it as it is visible from Alice throughout the book Kindred written by Octavia E. Butler. Though the ignorance and obliging by the master is the safe route we see in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass how seeking for knowledge and freedom can ultimately be