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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: 10/17/2004 06:52:00 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
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