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Frederick Douglass And Slavery - College Term Papers

Frederick Douglass And Slavery

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and
influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his
writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his
books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to perceive a
clear image of slavery through Douglass' words. His writings explain the effects
of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free
blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War,
and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed.
As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was
drawn to the questioning mind of ...

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by the screams of his Aunt. She would be tied and whipped on her
back. The master would whip her till he was literally covered in blood. "No
words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart
from its bloody purpose." The louder she screamed, the harder the master seemed
to whip her. Douglass witnessed this first as a child. As he grew older, many
more of these incidents would occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the
blood stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, though which I was
about to pass."
An old slave master of Douglass was Captain Anthony. Captain Anthony was,
at times, a kind and gentle man. However, slavery made him treat slaves as
inferiors. "Under the whole heavens there could be no relation more unfavorable
to the development of honorable character than that sustained by the slave
holder to the slave."
From the beginning of a slave's childhood, masters teach their slaves
about God. Slaves were told that God made ...

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Added: 11/25/2005 11:27:20 AM
Category: Biographies
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