Slavery By Frederick Douglass Summary

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The narrative is a style of writing that based on people, plot, time and setting which mainly describe the character’s experience and the development and changes of things. It is the most basic, common and the most important way of expression in writing. The narrative has wild range such as the journal, travelogues, biographies, and news are all areas of a narrative. Through vivid event to reflect the life, to express the author's thoughts and feelings. The central idea of the article usually implicit in the content, through the people, things, the description of things to influence others. Because of narrative writing is what we saw and heard in daily life, so you can feel the author’s real feeling and thought about
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Douglass is one of the mixed-race children, he believes his father is one of his slaveholders. The mixed-race slaves are worse than the Africa slave they are humbler. The most sadly are even the mixed-race slaves know who is the father but there is np way they can be same as other white children have been loved by his father. Instead, their father (slaveholder) will treat them as the goods being trafficked to another slaveholder, or work as a slave in the …show more content…
In there all the colored people are together and help each other, especially the people like Douglass who just escape from the slavery. Douglass began his new life in New Bedford, people in there are free there is no slavery and they are more educated than south. Douglass work in docks and try many different jobs and also become the reader of “Liberator” which encouraged him to stand up and fight against slavery. He also participates in the anti-slavery convention; he was asking to speak about his life experiences as a slave since then he works to against

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