Harriet Tubman, one of the underground railroad conductors once said “I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.” Concluding that slavery is compared to hell, which is meant to be a place of eternal torment and not endured during someone’s lifetime In an attempt to appeal to Northern sentiments and inspire active opposition to slavery, many of the writers “of the Slave Narratives” included stories of families being separated, people being treated as cattle, women being whipped, and masters taking pleasure in whipping slaves their narratives
In the hope to evoke sympathy in the north and inspire animosity for slavery, Mary …show more content…
In her narrative, The History of Mary Prince, Prince attempts to arouse sympathy from her reader when she recalls Hetty, her fellow slave getting horrifically whipped to death while she is pregnant. She writes of Hetty, who fastens one of the cows which had gotten loose, the master enraged and orders her “To be stripped quite naked, notwithstanding her pregnancy” (240) where he ties her up to a tree. He whips her with “both the whip and cow-skin, till she was all over streaming with blood”(240). Likewise, In her narrative, The History of Mary Prince, Prince wishes to create action from the northern reader when she recalls breaking a jar and her master coming home early in order to “give her round hundred” (241). She writes about getting “tied up on a ladder and [given] a hundred lashes”(241) after whipping her for a long time, he rests and begins to “beat [her] again and again until he was quite wearied” (241). Furthermore, In Douglass’ narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he wishes to evoke empathy from the reader, when he recalls one of his masters whipping a woman “causing blood to run half an hour at a time” (322), while her children are “pleading for their mother’s release” (322) Prince and Douglass write stories of
In the hope to evoke sympathy in the north and inspire animosity for slavery, Mary …show more content…
In her narrative, The History of Mary Prince, Prince attempts to arouse sympathy from her reader when she recalls Hetty, her fellow slave getting horrifically whipped to death while she is pregnant. She writes of Hetty, who fastens one of the cows which had gotten loose, the master enraged and orders her “To be stripped quite naked, notwithstanding her pregnancy” (240) where he ties her up to a tree. He whips her with “both the whip and cow-skin, till she was all over streaming with blood”(240). Likewise, In her narrative, The History of Mary Prince, Prince wishes to create action from the northern reader when she recalls breaking a jar and her master coming home early in order to “give her round hundred” (241). She writes about getting “tied up on a ladder and [given] a hundred lashes”(241) after whipping her for a long time, he rests and begins to “beat [her] again and again until he was quite wearied” (241). Furthermore, In Douglass’ narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he wishes to evoke empathy from the reader, when he recalls one of his masters whipping a woman “causing blood to run half an hour at a time” (322), while her children are “pleading for their mother’s release” (322) Prince and Douglass write stories of