Slavery

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Slavery

Introduction

Frederick Douglass, who was a former slave and a famous orator treatise on abolition and wrote a memoir, known as, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass. During the same period, it is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves. To fuel the abolitionist movement in the United States of the early nineteen century, this text is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature and describes the event of his life. His ambition to become a free man and his life as a slave are depicted in the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass.

Douglass appears quite different in roles and acts as both the protagonist and the narrator, in the Narrative. The point of the Narrative is the wide gulf between Douglass's two personas. He articulated political commentator, oppressed slave to worldly and progressed from uneducated. Through references to his naivete and relative ignorance, he frequently dramatizes the difference between his younger self and his older more experienced self. To encounter the city of Annapolis, that now seems small to him by the standards of Northern industrial cities, when Douglass mocks how impressed he was as a young man to encounter the city, at this instance the dramatization occurs.

Discussion

Similar to the life of other slaves, Douglass's life on this plantation is not as hard. Instead of in the fields, he serves in the household, being a child. He is handed over at the age of seventeen to Hugh Auld, who lives in Baltimore and is son-in-law's brother of Captain Anthony. A relatively freer life was enjoyed by Douglass in Baltimore. In front of their non-slave-owning neighbors, city slave-owners, in general, are more neglectful toward their slaves and are more conscious of appearing cruel.

Hugh's wife, Sophia Auld, was surprised to see Douglass at first, as she never had seen slaves before. Until her husband orders her to stop, she even begins to teach Douglass to read. His husband has the perspective that slaves become unmanageable after receiving education. Eventually, she loses her natural kindliness and succumbs to the mentality of slave-owning (Douglass & Jacobs, 2007). With the help of local boys, Douglass is able to teach himself to read and likes Baltimore, though Hugh Auld and Sophia become crueler toward him. Douglass became conscious about anti-slavery movement, the existence of the abolitionist and the evils of slavery as he learns to write and read.

Douglass is taken back to serve Captain Anthony's son-in-law, Thomas Auld, after the deaths of Captain Anthony. Made harsher by his false religious piety, Auld is a mean man. Auld rents Douglass for one year she he considers hum unmanageable. In the first six months, Covey manages to work and whip all the spirit out of Douglass as he is a man known for breaking slaves. Capable only of resting from his exhaustion and injuries, Douglas becomes no longer interested in freedom or reading and a brutish man. When Douglass resolves to fight back ...