able to perform activities such as: ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God,
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The natural law embodies moral behavior which is a law that should be applied to every American, black or white. Douglass considers the principles only applied to white people as inconsistencies. “You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties) is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.” This is an example of white privilege, the privileges available to white people were not available to the enslaved and as long as white people have their liberty, they become desensitized to the millions who have been enslaved. Douglass mentions that “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.” (Douglass 2003) Does this mean that white men are aware that slavery is wrong? If so, this is another example of hypocrisy. If white men knew slavery was wrong and inhuman, he wouldn’t force other men into
The natural law embodies moral behavior which is a law that should be applied to every American, black or white. Douglass considers the principles only applied to white people as inconsistencies. “You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties) is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.” This is an example of white privilege, the privileges available to white people were not available to the enslaved and as long as white people have their liberty, they become desensitized to the millions who have been enslaved. Douglass mentions that “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.” (Douglass 2003) Does this mean that white men are aware that slavery is wrong? If so, this is another example of hypocrisy. If white men knew slavery was wrong and inhuman, he wouldn’t force other men into