They first petitioned and later fought for the independence of our nation. In the middle of his speech, he brings up the topic of slavery. The passages that follow “There are seventy-two crimes.....” ( Frederick Douglass, 266) emphasizes his beliefs of why the slave is a man. He starts off by saying that Virginia has punishments for slaves if he commits a crime. This shows that a slave is responsible for his own actions.
My first example on how deleting our humane feelings caused harm is Document 7 by James Ramsay called, “Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies”. The article speaks about the punishments done to slaves for misbehaving in their eyes and committing mistakes. The white men would beat them with sticks, breaking their bones, chain around their necks, etc. All this was done to cause fear within them. All these people thought since Africans are slaves, it’s okay to treat them as beasts.
and of course are and ought to be slaves to the American people and their children forever“ ( Walker 792). He uses this tone to depict just how silly the notion of slavery is when he says these things that are blatantly not right. Walker seems to use this method of speaking throughout his writing to get his point across. Walker compares the American way of slavery to the way it was under the Romans and comes to a very interesting point. “The world knows, that slavery as it existed among the Romans was, comparatively speaking, no more than a cypher, when compared with ours under the Americans” he stated (Walker 792).
Two of his best used examples were the the popular propaganda speeches made by slave owners in attempt to gain allegiance against the North and the South’s almost hatred of the Republican Party as a whole. One key example that Dew provided was the use of scare tactics by the pro-slave Southerners. In an effort to build an alliance through the South, Southern leaders would use emotion to gain support of the common people. They would give examples of what would happen to them and their families if blacks would be free. These examples would explain how the lives of Southerners would be ruined and that the country would come to an end if slaves were freed.
Bryan Calderon 4/9/2012 Wrt 310 Response Paper Frederick Douglass vs. Martin Luther King Jr Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement which he fought to the end of slavery within the United States in the decades prior the Civil War. He was a brilliant speaker that was able to hold the full attention of his audiences with his charisma and past horrible experiences as a slave. He won world fame when his autobiography “The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” -F. Douglass 1845. Frederick Douglass suffered first-hand how brutal and vicious slave owners treated their property. The slave dealers and owners would dehumanize the slaves to the point that they had no say so in their lives or any freedom what so ever.
Simon Legree, the novel’s antagonist slave driver, became the archetypal Southern figure for whom Northerners felt much contempt. Northerners, relying much more on industry than agriculture, had for a long time been against slavery as a violation of human rights and as a waning economic practice overdue to become obsolete in the United States. Uncle Tom’s Cabin intensified these ideas through its emotional portrayal of black slaves as sufferers to evil white men.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. Throughout the book professor Nash emphasizes on the struggles an early America had to deal with developing a country based on independence and freedom, the concept which is the foundation of the “Declaration of Independence”, and enslave the men, women, and children of Africa. Through the American Revolution it was discovered that there was inconsistency with slave system and the principle reasons for the problems between England and America. We have to ask, why was slavery protected as long as it was? Within the book there were many reasons that explained why the nation failed to end slavery but the main reason being the fear that Georgia and South Carolina’s would refuse to join the union if they were forced to abolish it.
Cyril Enagbare Dr. Grubbs History 2110 15 November 2013 The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave" strived to education concerning the slave's troubles. This powerful account contains Douglass' desire to escape from damaging restrictions, which lead to the writing of his story. In the Narrative, Douglass uses many themes, and representations to teach people on the reality of slavery. The Narrative’s main purpose was to teach humanity of the unnaturalness of slavery and the significances it had on the enslaved and the masters. Douglass’s Narrative really displayed how white slaveholders kept slavery by keeping their slaves ignorant.
By using the same racist nicknames which whites called blacks, such as “niggers”, with each other, it ridiculed the whole scenario. Thus creating a productive, but by no means healthy relationship between slave masters and their
His courage translated into a change in humanity’s prejudice toward another fellow man. The frankness of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had served its purpose in illustrating the cruel discrimination of slaves and also initiating a controversial movement that we ensure today. Douglass portrays a classical hero as he converts from a low class slave into a man who challenged an entire nation. He stood as a man with absolutely nothing to lose. It goes to show the capability of one’s voice and action.