Frederick Douglass's View Of Slavery

Slavery, a theme that had been discussed since a long time ago, almost all the centuries. Slavery was different all over the world, because although it had the same meaning, was not always practiced in the same way.When America practiced slavery, slavers do it with dark-skinned people, who came from Africa. They thought that those person were inferior by their skin color and because they were not civilized and how they were strong, could do forced labor that they needed. This is a little summary of slavery in America but in other parts of the world, slavery was in some ways a little different, for example in Egypt. This country also practiced slavery but one different was that they sold their own family member by necessity, it means that they …show more content…
He wrote his own autobiography narrating about what he lived. He was born in the 1830’s and Shyima an Egyptian girl was born 1990’s, so that means that they are different times and different places but equally, they were enslaved, that is what the main similarity is. Both had a childhood unwanted by anyone. They were separated from their families to be abused and see how other were happy when they were losing their lives because of this. Frederick Douglass once said “The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black misery” and in the articles that talks about Shyima it can see this quote: “Slavery is like someone is mugging you and stealing your life” by Kevin …show more content…
Both abandoned poor people but differently because remembering that they did not live the same situation due to time, places and cultures. Douglas was separated from his mother because slavers took her to work in a place far of where he was and he did not know of her anymore. Shyima’s case was different because she lived with her parents but they were poor and they sold her for forty-five dollars a month to another family in what she was the housekeeper but near as an slave. Her parents did not wanted her back because they wanted more the money their received for her and they did not believe that their daughter was being abused.

On conclusion, we all knows that slavery is a horrible thing and it is nothing compare to humanity. Most people are sorry that have occurred this kind of things and are very happy that do not happen more but some other are not because in a real world the slavery can be see but it is not a massive thing. It can happen but something like that happened with Shyima because is not allowed and neither the