Why Is Frederick Douglass A Success Or A Failure

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass shows numerous instances in which Frederick Douglass’s personal accounts of slavery are highlighted. Douglass who was the leading spokesman and famous former slave and abolitionist escaped from the South to the North, despite the fear of failure and made the movement out of his life. Douglass believed that the north would be exceedingly poor comparison to the South. The reason why he thought this way was the absence of slaves in the North. He assumed that the North is so poor to not afford slaves because he accustomed to regard people’s poverty as the necessary consequence of their being non-slaveholders from his life. On the contrary, when he experienced in the North, they were wealthy as he described abundant fruits such as apples. When he reached New Bedford, he …show more content…
Covey broke Douglass’s spirit by giving him the enormous amounts of work and the highly intense amount of discipline. As Douglass said, “we were worked fully up to the point of endurance,” as he had not enough time to take his meals and he always under the Mr. Covey’s surveillance as he described Mr. Covey as a snake and a thief in the night. For example, Mr. Covey surprised slaves by sneaking through the tall grass and trees. Mr. Covey’s inhumane treatment made Douglass miserable as he insulted emotionally and physically and this represent the Douglass’s state of lethargy. In other words, he was one of the slaves who suffered from the plantation system. However, at the same time prolonged suffer acted as a steppingstone to move forward to achieve freedom. Douglass’s August confrontation with Covey caused by Douglass fights back against Covey. Because Auld wanted to punish his brother, Hugh, he made Douglass to move from Baltimore to Thomas Auld’s. Also, there was an argument that Auld never let Douglass return to Baltimore. Thomas Auld who has not owned slaves from birth, was very cruel. Douglass lived with him after his first stint in