Society in the 1845 was difficult for an African American slave. Your life was not yours, it was not even a family member. One’s life was owned by a stranger of a different race, one didn’t even have a name, and the only purpose you served to society was labor. Growing up without a mother or a father was normal, a slave was lucky to even know who birth him or her. Rape was socially accepted so some slaves was mixed like the great Fredrick Douglas. Mr. Douglas was born in Maryland he was separated from his mother as just an infant It was a rumor that his master was his father, but as the life of a slave one was not allowed to question anything not even their age. The narrative of Fredrick Douglas is only a small point of view of what society
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This is a harsh feeling knowing that you could lose your life at any moment for doing anything that your master did not approve of or just because he wanted to and no justice would get served. The things that we are experiencing in today’s time really have been going on for centuries. The slaves did not even have a voice to protest for justice. It was expected for one to be ok with burying their family member. A Slave could do something so simple such as speak up about the unfairness of their master and they would be killed. How could someone bite their tongue knowing something is wrong and cruel? At this point in life Death is seemed as peace with some …show more content…
We should appreciate our education, because slaves were not allowed read and write. The things that we take for granted are the things they would have praised to have. Fredrick Douglas was a strong man he knew that things that went on around him did not defined who he really was or who he could really be no matter what society says. This narrative explain how through everything Fredrick Douglas went through he still made a way out, He later lived in Baltimore which “laid a foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity” which let us know he did not let any obstacles come his
This is a harsh feeling knowing that you could lose your life at any moment for doing anything that your master did not approve of or just because he wanted to and no justice would get served. The things that we are experiencing in today’s time really have been going on for centuries. The slaves did not even have a voice to protest for justice. It was expected for one to be ok with burying their family member. A Slave could do something so simple such as speak up about the unfairness of their master and they would be killed. How could someone bite their tongue knowing something is wrong and cruel? At this point in life Death is seemed as peace with some …show more content…
We should appreciate our education, because slaves were not allowed read and write. The things that we take for granted are the things they would have praised to have. Fredrick Douglas was a strong man he knew that things that went on around him did not defined who he really was or who he could really be no matter what society says. This narrative explain how through everything Fredrick Douglas went through he still made a way out, He later lived in Baltimore which “laid a foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity” which let us know he did not let any obstacles come his