Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland on February1818 and he died on February 20, 1895. And was named by his mother's, Harriet Bailey. But the exact date of Douglass birth is unknown. After escaping from slavery, he becomes a leader of the abolitionist movement. He knows that as a living counter is an example to slave holders augments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to the function as independent American citizens. He was known as the narrative of the life of American slaves. His dialogue was “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it”. He was of …show more content…
He was uneducated, oppressed slaves to worldly and articulated political commentator. Douglass respects his older and who is more experienced than him, and his younger self thought references to his relative ignorance and naiveté. Douglass makess impress to the people and he was a young man to encounter the city of Annapolis. A city that seems small to him by the standards of northern industries cities. Douglass known about her mother, year after her death. He learns that, she was a literate slave. He didn’t determine through how to read and to get the opportunity to learn anything. Douglass talks about lacertian. Lucretia is a daughter of Captain Anthony. Lucretia was a kind woman who protected him from being beaten by aunt katy, and she was another slave. In his old age, Douglass becomes a good friend of Lucretia, daughter, whose name was Amanda Auld. But, after few years lucratia had died when Amanda was still a baby. Douglass was working in ship builder in Baltimore. He portrays him as a greedy slave master who exploited that Douglass was a day worker. He was getting more problems from learning to read because he felt a knowledgeable slave was a dangerous one. In the same way, Sophia Auld was treating to Douglass was a slave. Sophia Auld was the wife of Hugh Auld. At first, she was good with Douglass, but owning slaves corrupted her and …show more content…
He was facing a problem in a adverse way, we come to expect him as we get to know him better he’s always clever and smiling in the face of danger, but for thorough and unbending when it comes to questions of morality. Most young slaves learn to give a hard time, learn to save themselves by going with the flow. Instantly, Douglass refuses to bend to compromise his principal or to know that my heart was right. He was lucky that his stubbiness didn’t put him in an early grave, but may, he is lucky that he was so stubborn without that persistent courage, he never found that his way north to freedom. But the money is not coming easy for him. The older he gets, the more Douglass gets more respect out as a stubborn slave, so unyielding and determined in what he feels is right that he's seen as a threat to the whole system. From a very young age, he sees slavery as immoral, and he's not afraid to say, and smartness. On the other hand, Douglass never has any desire to fight for the religion, but it was important to remember that he only put his life on the line when he has nothing to lose. He have some friends and he was close with them. Anyway he was trying to leave friendship with them to concentrate in work. At finally he did and he was not talking with his friends for while. He was smart and respectful one of the slaves who is working in this
Douglass’s use of juxtaposition reveals how education is important to becoming a free individual. When Mr. Auld finds out that Douglass was taught to read by his wife, he explains his views on educating a slave; “Which to him was a great evil,
In America in the 1800’s slaves were not allowed to be educated and were broken so that they wouldn’t have hope to escape to the north. Slaves were separated from their mothers at birth and would be taken to another plantation to be put into slavery. They would also be sent to cruel masters who would break them and make them hopeless and more compliant. But Douglass was different; his intelligence, observation, and motivation defined and impacted him. Douglass’s experiences and attributes allowed for him to escape from slavery.
He speaks by saying that a city slave is almost always feed and clothes properly. He also talks a lot about his mistress, and how she tried to teach him to read. In this chapter Douglass details his master explaining to his wife why a slave cannot be taught to read. From here Douglass has a goal of teaching himself to read, he realizes the white man is very fearful of a slave holding that power. Douglass also speaks of this mistreatment of his neighbor slaves, how they are emaciated.
In this book a conversation takes place between a master and his slave after the slave had run away for his third time. While talking to his master, the slave had very smart convincing things to say. At the end of the conversation, the master voluntarily emancipated his slave. Quite often this story would make the slave hearing it hopeful, but in Douglass’s case it did just the opposite. He felt more pain and more trapped than he has ever felt before.
Frederick Douglass was a slave from Maryland who, through luck and intelligence, was able to escape slavery at 20 years old. In his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he describes how it felt being a slave throughout his childhood and adolescence, as well as the traumatizing conditions on plantations. Douglass also discusses how he learned to read and write, which causes him to consider his position in slavery and helps to inspire his escape. Nevertheless, once he arrives in New York, Douglass’s hope quickly fades as he is faced with the reality of his situation; he is all alone in a place where he could easily be caught and returned to slavery, making the efforts of his escape in vain. In the excerpt from his autobiography,
In his narrative Douglass describes the hardships of growing up as child in slavery and
Then he jumps into a description of his mother, the only family member whom he knows. However, this portrayal is scant because Douglass and his mother are “separated when [he is] but an infant—before [he knows] her as [his] mother”, which “is a common custom” (Douglass 395). Although he defines it as common, this is not commonplace amongst his readers, the white majority, but the slave world. While an enslaved mother loses her child almost immediately after giving birth, the white slaveholding parents nurture their own children and watch them grow up with love and support. The irony in this situation is that these people do not realize that they are tearing families apart all the while making sure that their family stays together.
Although Douglass is initially overcome by joy when he first gets to New York, he is eventually overwhelmed by loneliness and paranoia. Living in the middle of a large city, he is surrounded by thousands, yet he has nobody to talk to. At every step, Douglass sees someone betraying him and that he gets sent to the South. Even though he knows that he is free, Douglass doesn’t feel that way and thinks that he is and will always be hunted. Douglass overcomes his debilitating fear when he meets someone he can actually trust.
Douglass was born a slave and his mom died when he was young. Douglass had many masters some a lot better than others he did much hard work just like any other slave and if he wouldn't do it or didn't do it right he would get slashed. Douglass was a slave in the city for a while when he was young. There he learned how to read and write, he started learning by a white free woman who eventually could no longer teach him because Douglass’s master told her that slaves are not allowed to be taught how to read and write. The master said that a slave needs to be uneducated so that they can be controlled and cannot provide for himself then this way they will need someone like a master to take care of them.
With this, Douglass is addressing the topic of slavery and whether to abolish it or not. And goes about telling the hardships he went through.
Douglass encountered multiple harsh realities of being enslaved. For example, the ex-slave was practically starved to death by his masters on multiple occasions. In fact, “[He was] allowed less than a half of a bushel of corn-meal per week, and very little else... It was not enough for [him] to subsist upon... A great many times [he had] been nearly perishing with hunger” (pg 31).
Douglass uses his Narrative to share his position is by telling his audience how unfairly Douglass is treated and how white men or slaveholders take control of the life of a slave because in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass on page 1 paragraph 1 it says, The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age. I come to this, from hearing my master say, some time during 1835, I was about seventeen years old.” What this piece of evidence is demonstrates is that Frederick Douglass did not even now his own birth and that he had to guess on what his master said and that his master knows more what Frederick knows about his life. Another way that Douglass’s uses his Narrative to share his position is by telling their audience how unfairly Frederick and many other slaves were treated because because in the Document “‘ Pro Slavery Arguments South’’ on paragraph 6 it says,”Southern slaveholders pro-slavery arguments defended the interest of the plantation owners against attempts by abolitionists, lower classes, and non-whites to institute a more equal social structure.”
Douglass tells about his own childhood and how his father might have been a slaveholder. He explains
He was born to a woman slave and a white man. He was raised primarily by his relatives and only occasionally met his mother, who died when he was a young boy. He never met his father, but knew only that he was a white man. During this time, he witnessed the first-hand horrors and mistreatment of slaves and spent many days hungry and cold. Shortly after the death of his mother, Douglass was sent to live with a man in Baltimore and his life became relatively normal for several years.
Douglass belong to a well off family. The woman of the house thought him how to read and write some things. Until her husband found out that she was teaching him, then she suddenly stopped and was angry at Douglass, when he was reading. They felt like he would listen to the Irishman when he said “They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.” After losing his only source of teaching he resorted to the lest fortunate white kids for help.