Fredrick Douglass Argumentative Essay

In the past readings we have read, we learned the roles of women in Puritan times. Women were not able to speak freely and discuss religion among the colony. They were also not allowed to hold and obtain property like men could and they weren’t allowed to write or be part of any document of history obtaining to voting. When women married they weren’t allowed to do what they wanted. Husbands had full control over them and there was absolute male authority in a marriage.

But when reading Fredrick Douglass’s narrative we obtain a different view of women during the period of slavery. Douglass emphasizes on women to display a visual representation of physical abuse that was shown and the way he observes the cruelty. He wanted women to be part of his narrative to show the …show more content…
When doing this Douglass displays another side of slavery life. Not just the physical abuse from males of different color, but women as well. I would have expected Douglass to explain more about a male view and experience more than just a women’s experience since the narrative is written from a male perspective, but I guess I could say that he did this to show there are no rules on whether you are male or female and that whatever race or gender you were, there would always be specific jobs for a certain person. He doesn’t just focus his whole narrative on women, but the men who owned them and life of a slave person.

In the first part of Douglass’s narrative we read from Douglass that “slavery is hideous” meaning, that slavery is repulsive and gruesome. From reading this narrative, I agree with Douglass’s point on slavery being hideous. By the first part of the first chapter Douglass displays the beating of