Narrative Life Of Frederick Douglass Essay
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
In the book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, we see the hard lives the slaves went through. The physically, mentally and emotional abuse from the “masters.” I the book Douglass talks about personal feelings in his history and that helps us understand the intense abhorrence and repugnance the American slave had for his possessor. The typical American slave standard of living was worse than most of the poverty stricken countries of today. Most slaves were not as privileged to be called as “fat and happy.” Slave “owners,” simply did not have to provide adequate food and clothing because there was no regulation or laws that enforce it. Despite of all of these abuses and horrible unhuman circumstances slaves lived, politicians embrace the slave owners’ behaviors.
Thomas Jefferson, United States Minister to France at the time, published a book called “Notes of the State of Virginia in 1785, in which he widely …show more content…
Calhoun, there can be a good relationship between the owner and slave. Page 59 it says how Frederick’s owner at young age was being treated well by his owner “He became quite attached to me, and was sort of a protector to me. He would not allow the older boys to impose upon me, and would divide his cakes with me.” A nation without slaves is a nation that can succeed, “I (F. Douglass) had somehow imbibed the opinion that, in the absence of the slaves there could be no wealth, and very little refinement….In the afternoon the day I reach New Bedford, I visited the wharves, to take a view of the shipping. Here I found myself surrounded with the strongest proofs of wealth. Lying at the wharves, and riding in the stream, I saw many ships of the finest model, in the best order, and of the largest size. Upon the right and left, I was walled in by granite warehouses of the widest dimensions, stowed to their utmost capacity with the necessaries and comforts of life.” (Chapter XI,
In the book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, we see the hard lives the slaves went through. The physically, mentally and emotional abuse from the “masters.” I the book Douglass talks about personal feelings in his history and that helps us understand the intense abhorrence and repugnance the American slave had for his possessor. The typical American slave standard of living was worse than most of the poverty stricken countries of today. Most slaves were not as privileged to be called as “fat and happy.” Slave “owners,” simply did not have to provide adequate food and clothing because there was no regulation or laws that enforce it. Despite of all of these abuses and horrible unhuman circumstances slaves lived, politicians embrace the slave owners’ behaviors.
Thomas Jefferson, United States Minister to France at the time, published a book called “Notes of the State of Virginia in 1785, in which he widely …show more content…
Calhoun, there can be a good relationship between the owner and slave. Page 59 it says how Frederick’s owner at young age was being treated well by his owner “He became quite attached to me, and was sort of a protector to me. He would not allow the older boys to impose upon me, and would divide his cakes with me.” A nation without slaves is a nation that can succeed, “I (F. Douglass) had somehow imbibed the opinion that, in the absence of the slaves there could be no wealth, and very little refinement….In the afternoon the day I reach New Bedford, I visited the wharves, to take a view of the shipping. Here I found myself surrounded with the strongest proofs of wealth. Lying at the wharves, and riding in the stream, I saw many ships of the finest model, in the best order, and of the largest size. Upon the right and left, I was walled in by granite warehouses of the widest dimensions, stowed to their utmost capacity with the necessaries and comforts of life.” (Chapter XI,