Frederick Douglass Traits

After reading the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave, I learned a lot about the determination of man and the further horrors of slavery. Douglass was born as a slave and lived the first half of his life as one till he escaped. He didn’t have him mother growing up and he never knew who his father really was either. There was word it was his first owner and that he was a white man but that was the extent of Fredrick’s knowledge of the man. The moment he was old enough he’d be sold and witness horrors slavery forced upon him before being sent off to Boston to live with the Auld’s where he’d learn his ABC’s and soon enough start to teach himself how to read and write. Though living centuries apart, Frederick Douglass …show more content…
Douglass was a determined man. Even when hope was lost, he would work through his struggles. He almost seemed to have a constant luck with him when situations grew worse and was always thinking and planning his way out of situations. I feel at times I can be this way, determined to the point of just being down right stubborn. We have both faced numerous struggles in our lives that were difficult to over come yet,we didn’t give up and continued to push ahead. In the end we didn’t let out troubles force us down. We were determined to seek a better like for …show more content…
From the get go Douglass is a hard worker and perhaps it could be because he was forced to be. Douglass had no other choice. If he didn’t get his job done and done right there were risks of horrible punishments. Unless I find it important enough I’d half ass a lot of things. There are numerous times where I was able to get large assignments and projects done within a night and still get a decent grade. Fredrick may have had more of a reason than just the threat of a beating to work. H was able to use these opportunities to learn new trades and sell his time to others for a small profit on his