Growing up Douglass witnessed and learned that the institution of slavery was callous and inhumane. Witnessing so much as a young boy, Douglass noticed “…slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others” (Douglass 14). Growing up, he began to notice that nothing changed. Slavery was still harsh. Many of the descriptions of what he saw were the overseer “… [who] seem to take pleasure in whipping a slave” (Douglass 15). Throughout his narrative, he made it clear that slavery was a grim way to live. And living that way for the rest of ones life would be unbearable, and the thought of it would drain the spirit of a slave, that they knew their life would get no
Growing up Douglass witnessed and learned that the institution of slavery was callous and inhumane. Witnessing so much as a young boy, Douglass noticed “…slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to contend with, than others” (Douglass 14). Growing up, he began to notice that nothing changed. Slavery was still harsh. Many of the descriptions of what he saw were the overseer “… [who] seem to take pleasure in whipping a slave” (Douglass 15). Throughout his narrative, he made it clear that slavery was a grim way to live. And living that way for the rest of ones life would be unbearable, and the thought of it would drain the spirit of a slave, that they knew their life would get no