Slavery and mean people
(An Analysis of The Narrative and Other Stories)
Freedom is something that not everyone had at one point in time. Black people were kept as slaves, and they did not learn to read or write because of the fear of them escaping from the people who owned them. Fredrick Douglas was a slave that learned to read from his master although it was against the law for them to be able to read or write. This was also out of fear of the slaves running away. His views on slavery agreed with the views of Thomas Jefferson, slave holders agree with Machiavelli, and Frederick's political ideals are based on kindness, not full power.
Frederick Douglass would have found Thomas Jefferson’s views on government to be most important. “The writer Garry Wills has suggested that Jefferson believed human life could be geared to the precision and simplicity of heaven's machinery.” This shows that Thomas Jefferson was not one of the mean slave owners that was going to beat the heck out of his slaves. This agrees with Frederick Douglass in that they both wanted …show more content…
They would agree with this because Machiavelli wanted complete control over the people he was ruling, and slave owners want full control as well. “Yet Machiavelli also held that virtù had a psychological dimension, insofar as the prince who succeeds in gaining and retaining his state must shun conventional personal morality and adjust to the circumstances of his position in whatever way is required.” (Nederman) This shows that Machiavelli was completely okay with doing things the way he needed and not really caring about what other people wanted. Another source had this to say about Machiavelli and what he did with his “Machiavelli's correspondence to present a complex portrait, showing his subject in the varied public roles he played: civil servant, diplomat, political philosopher, and playwright.”
(An Analysis of The Narrative and Other Stories)
Freedom is something that not everyone had at one point in time. Black people were kept as slaves, and they did not learn to read or write because of the fear of them escaping from the people who owned them. Fredrick Douglas was a slave that learned to read from his master although it was against the law for them to be able to read or write. This was also out of fear of the slaves running away. His views on slavery agreed with the views of Thomas Jefferson, slave holders agree with Machiavelli, and Frederick's political ideals are based on kindness, not full power.
Frederick Douglass would have found Thomas Jefferson’s views on government to be most important. “The writer Garry Wills has suggested that Jefferson believed human life could be geared to the precision and simplicity of heaven's machinery.” This shows that Thomas Jefferson was not one of the mean slave owners that was going to beat the heck out of his slaves. This agrees with Frederick Douglass in that they both wanted …show more content…
They would agree with this because Machiavelli wanted complete control over the people he was ruling, and slave owners want full control as well. “Yet Machiavelli also held that virtù had a psychological dimension, insofar as the prince who succeeds in gaining and retaining his state must shun conventional personal morality and adjust to the circumstances of his position in whatever way is required.” (Nederman) This shows that Machiavelli was completely okay with doing things the way he needed and not really caring about what other people wanted. Another source had this to say about Machiavelli and what he did with his “Machiavelli's correspondence to present a complex portrait, showing his subject in the varied public roles he played: civil servant, diplomat, political philosopher, and playwright.”