The mind of a slave Slavery was a big issue in the 18th century. Lives and families where broken apart. Human beings where dragged out of their homes and thrown into ships heading towards an unknown land. There is no greater monster than slavery. Slavery is but a pure evil in this world. But despite the obstacles and horrors a slave faced in life there where many great men and women who rose to greatness and became a strong literary role model for anyone in the world today. Two of these amazing writers are Frederick Douglass and Oludah Equiano. Let me start of by introducing you to these great men. Olaudah Equiano, was an African American slave who wrote an autobiography “The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano”. He was
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Frederick Douglass was born in a slave cabin, on February 1818, Talbot County, Maryland, Md. Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother when he was only a couple weeks old and was raised by his grandparents. Without warning he was left alone in his plantation abandoned by his grandmother. His master sent him to live as a house boy in the home of his master’s relatives in Baltimore where his mistress took it upon herself to teach him the alphabet. Before Frederick Douglass completed learning how to read the mistresses husband forbade her from continuing his lessons. Despite his master’s disapproval for him learning how to read Frederick Douglass took it upon himself to learn how to read at whatever cost. He gave his very limited food to the neighborhood boys in exchange for lessons in reading and writing. Within time Frederick Douglass became a great reader and writer and at the age of thirteen he bought his first book “The Columbian Orator” which helped lead him into a life of strong writing and effective spoken power. One of Frederick Douglass’s greatest contributors to antislavery was his story “The life and times of Fredrick Douglass (1881).” Douglass escaped from slavery at the age of 20 and spent his early life working as an abolitionist and taking down Jim Crow laws. Douglass was a strong …show more content…
There are many great quotes from “The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano” that it was almost impossible to choose just one. A very strong and moving quote is “I have seen a slave beaten till some of his bones were broken, for only letting a pot boil over. I have seen slaves put into scales and weighed, and then sold from three pence to nine pence a pound.” (Equiano 62). This literary similarity from Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano proved to be a big deal due to the fact their writing sparked a big interest in people and caused many of them to read their narratives which was very influential in a way that it helped lots of people truly understand the horrors that slavery
Frederick Douglass was born in a slave cabin, on February 1818, Talbot County, Maryland, Md. Frederick Douglass was separated from his mother when he was only a couple weeks old and was raised by his grandparents. Without warning he was left alone in his plantation abandoned by his grandmother. His master sent him to live as a house boy in the home of his master’s relatives in Baltimore where his mistress took it upon herself to teach him the alphabet. Before Frederick Douglass completed learning how to read the mistresses husband forbade her from continuing his lessons. Despite his master’s disapproval for him learning how to read Frederick Douglass took it upon himself to learn how to read at whatever cost. He gave his very limited food to the neighborhood boys in exchange for lessons in reading and writing. Within time Frederick Douglass became a great reader and writer and at the age of thirteen he bought his first book “The Columbian Orator” which helped lead him into a life of strong writing and effective spoken power. One of Frederick Douglass’s greatest contributors to antislavery was his story “The life and times of Fredrick Douglass (1881).” Douglass escaped from slavery at the age of 20 and spent his early life working as an abolitionist and taking down Jim Crow laws. Douglass was a strong …show more content…
There are many great quotes from “The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano” that it was almost impossible to choose just one. A very strong and moving quote is “I have seen a slave beaten till some of his bones were broken, for only letting a pot boil over. I have seen slaves put into scales and weighed, and then sold from three pence to nine pence a pound.” (Equiano 62). This literary similarity from Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano proved to be a big deal due to the fact their writing sparked a big interest in people and caused many of them to read their narratives which was very influential in a way that it helped lots of people truly understand the horrors that slavery