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Historical Essay #4: Frederick Douglas Ashleyann Mabatid Azusa Pacific University College Frederick Douglass Who Is Fredrick Douglass? He is a African American writer and a former slave, he had escaped to freedom in the North. This book he wrote called “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”, is an autobiography about his life written in 1845, when slavery was still legal in the United States. Douglass was an abolitionist that is a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or slavery. In his book he talks about his life as a slave and when he became a freeman. A life of a slave is never guaranteed another day; it can end whenever. In this essay I will discuss …show more content…

That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon”. (Pg. 19) In this quote Douglass is referring to Mrs. Auld’s personality on how it changed from when he first met her and her not knowing to do handle a slave compared to Mr. Auld’s lesson on what you can not do with a slave. She tried to teach Douglass how to read and that was a No No. Having Mr. Auld tell Mrs. Auld that they aren’t supposed to learn how to read just made him want to learn how to read even more. She got corrupted by the power of having a slave to do whatever her heart desired that her angelic personality that he had encountered the first time went away she became a …show more content…

His belief is what kept him going. Douglass even as a young boy knew more about the love of Christ than any of his masters. Frederick Douglass's friends in the abolitionist movement were all faithful Christians, but Douglass has some really harsh criticisms for slave owners who claim to be Christians. Douglass believes that a person can't be both a Christian and a slave owner. Not only does Douglass hate hypocrites, but he also tells us that the religious slave owners are even worse than those who don't pretend to be religious. This sometimes got Douglass in trouble with Christians who thought he was attacking them instead of religious imposters. He believed that slave owners who go to church on Sunday aren’t religious with that you do during the week that makes you a

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