Racism In The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

According to the information presented in the book, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, slaves were treated as animals. They did not had bead to sleep on because they preferred to have time to sleep rather than a comfortable place to sleep on. Their time to sleep was consumed by home chores and by preparing themselves for work they had to realize the next day. Mr. Severe whipped anyone who was not ready to start work at the sound of the horn. But slaves were not only whipped for not being ready to work at the sunrise; African-Americans were also punished and sent to jail for minor “crimes”. One of the common action that caused slaves to be in jail was the garden of Colonel Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd’s garden was one of the greatest attractions of the place. The garden was full of an enormous variety of fruits and it was the temptation of hungry slaves. Several slaves were hardly whipped or send to jail for stealing a fruit or any other piece of food; even when there were big amounts of food that was being wasted, slaves were not allowed to eat it. The …show more content…
Nowadays, we have a misconception about ideas and stereotypes as well. Society usually thinks that a religious person is an individual that has compassion towards other and that they always try to be good and help others. Although this may be true, it is not always applicable for every person that claims to be a religious person. In his narrative, Douglass discussed the role that religion played in the slavery ere, which helps the audience to recognize how stereotypes were applied in the religion point of view. Several slave-owners claimed to be Christians. However, Douglass did not believe that a person can be both, a Christian and a slave-owner. “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this