Douglass Example
Slaves didn’t know their mothers or birthdays. Assess the impact on their mental well being ? Care of the mother for the child's future character formation, have a decisive role. The slaves don‘t know their mother, so they don’t get good care. Slaves don’t have a sense of identity for self because they don‘t know their birthday. It is easy to hurt them as a person's sense of belonging. Slaves needs their mothers to be their directors. 2. Slavery degraded master and slave. Masters derived pleasure from abusing chattel. How would this behavior contribute to their diminished humanity? 400 years of the slave trade, but estimates of slaves brought to America Africa about 12 million to 30 million. Africa continent as a whole, the slave trade population loss, at least about 100 million people, equivalent to 1800s of the total population Africa. 5. Did Southerners treat their slaves well? They loved to sing. What was Douglass’ perception about the songs? Southern slave owners treated their slaves no good. Most of the slaves worked in the plantation. The slave was born black leaders - Frederic, said in his autobiography, the average person is happy, when the slaves sing songs of grief and sadness. Or sing particularly desolate feeling very warm tone; or with a very bleak tone singing especially fanatical feelings; every note, every word of the lyrics express suffering slaves filled with sorrow and grief. 7. Who is Austin Gore and his maxims? What did he do to Demby? Why? Gore’s punishment? Austin Gore is the new supervisor in the big house. Mr. Gore is ambitious, first-class supervision, he is cunning, cruel. He will be looking for reasons to punish those slaves. Ensure that all slaves afraid of him. His motto is "'This is better than a dozen slaves under the lashes suffer, than when the supervisor should be convicted of negligence in the presence of slaves." Mr. Gore was killed Denbigh, he is a slave.