Frederick Douglass Argumentative Essay

As humans we go through great deal of thoughts and emotions that are cemented forever in our brains. No matter the change in our lives we will remember and we don’t forget the worst that we go through, but we use it as motivation and to change others. Douglass and many other slave’s stories are the remnants that legitimately tells us how slavery was and how they experienced the feeling that they did. Douglass’s argument in these paragraphs were that the cruelty and lengthy hours of work and never ending pain that comes with it, breaks down who you are as a person. Douglass lays out in the opening that the work was unbearable and at times the slaves would hope for it to rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for them to work in the field but they never stopped working. It was grueling weather that could affect your work and also affects your health. The slave owner Mr.Covey didn’t …show more content…
“ I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit.” By saying he was unmanageable he’s telling us about his learning and wisdom he’s obtained. The arrangement of the words unmanageable and tamed proclaims the meaning of him as a slave was characterized as some sort of animal and that was exactly how they were treated. Douglass was broken due to how he was treated and he was living a life of being empty and that is expressed with him saying he was broken in body, soul, and spirit. This conveys the negative energy left in him and how distressed and drained he was. The first paragraph also gives you an idea of how half a year felt like for them which felt like years. It’s a hyperbole and he exaggerated a bit, the by that way Douglass describes it, you could visualize the way it must have felt if you went through the same thing as in trying to connect with the