Analysis Of Frederick Douglass Narrative Of The Life Of A Slave

Analyzing the primary sources: Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815...Aged 65 Years - written about the life of Chloe Spear, and an image from Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing A Few Words About American Slave Children. And Stories of Slave Life A Slave Father Sold Away from His Family, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – written in Frederick Douglass’ perspective, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl – written in Harriet Jacobs perspective. As well as the secondary sources: Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America, Up from Childhood: When African-American Enslaved Children Learned of Their Servile Status, and Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South documented the slave children’s emotional (anger, dissatisfaction, loneliness…) and literate development (enhancing their reading and writing skills) from birth through their teenage years. The discussion of their experience before knowing they were slaves, their emotional upcoming in terms of the presence or the lack of family, literacy in terms of being eager to read or having the ability to read are important assets to consider when drawing our conclusion of the …show more content…
I also recounts instances in which the slave children themselves realize that their slaveholders had more authority than their parents. The book also describes the choices a slave owner has to take, whether the child should be with the mother to grow healthy or separate the family for continued labor, their decisions were derived on whether they wanted a long-term or short-term benefit. Born In Bondage links the slaveholder's role in creating a gap between the parents and the child and in shaping them to realize that they are not humans but instead