Essay 2:Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass gives an idea about African Americans slavery in both the city and also the rural area. Frederick Douglass himself went through these types of slavery and in his book, the lecture is getting a first person perspective about slavery and why it should be abolished. There are several reasons for why Douglass believed slavery should be abolished, but the main reason is the fact that slavery was dehumanizing people, both the slaveholders as well as the slave themselves.
For Douglass, everything started making sense when he witnessed his aunt Hester being beaten as an animal because she didn’t followed instructions given to her by her master. From that precise moment little Douglass understood that he himself was also a slave and the only wrong he had done was to be born black. In his book Douglass is showing how women are beatean treated for less than humans. They are being rapped or forced to bear children for their master so that the number of slaves can increase for the only profit of the master. As shown and described by …show more content…
Slavery did not only destroy black people slaves, but it also dehumanized the slaveholders. They could not act or do things like normal human beings, but they turned to demonic beings that hold other people under them and marched over their head just because they did not share the same skin color. Frederick Douglas who was himself a slave since his coming into the earth, he tried to be the exception and free himself then help his fellow to freedom as well. He was able to do so because he persevered and finally escaped from his masters and became a
The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass gives an idea about African Americans slavery in both the city and also the rural area. Frederick Douglass himself went through these types of slavery and in his book, the lecture is getting a first person perspective about slavery and why it should be abolished. There are several reasons for why Douglass believed slavery should be abolished, but the main reason is the fact that slavery was dehumanizing people, both the slaveholders as well as the slave themselves.
For Douglass, everything started making sense when he witnessed his aunt Hester being beaten as an animal because she didn’t followed instructions given to her by her master. From that precise moment little Douglass understood that he himself was also a slave and the only wrong he had done was to be born black. In his book Douglass is showing how women are beatean treated for less than humans. They are being rapped or forced to bear children for their master so that the number of slaves can increase for the only profit of the master. As shown and described by …show more content…
Slavery did not only destroy black people slaves, but it also dehumanized the slaveholders. They could not act or do things like normal human beings, but they turned to demonic beings that hold other people under them and marched over their head just because they did not share the same skin color. Frederick Douglas who was himself a slave since his coming into the earth, he tried to be the exception and free himself then help his fellow to freedom as well. He was able to do so because he persevered and finally escaped from his masters and became a