Douglas Wrote this book and gave such a in-depth description as to his experience of being a slave in the south. As something that was normal to the white folks , but to Douglass he felt like those were not rules that he needed to follow or other slaves. There were rules that they needed to obey , and if disobeyed then they will be punished or killed without any strong reason. As I was reading the first chapters and was amazed at how much people it the South treated common folks like if they were a piece of property.
Making the Southerners cold hearted, and needy people who just feed for their sainting without caring who gets hurt and traumatized.Treating human like any property that owned, like if they were just animals. Just because they are of different ethnic background does not make them less of a person. Douglass didn’t find slavery a morally right, and that want something a person should do all their life , live and die being a slave. The reasons I am going to be provided below with help support my I think slavery was incorrect, and how Douglass narrative helped me realize that it was much was then I thought.
Frederick Douglass purpose of writing his narrative was to get the attention of those individuals who didn’t have any idea of how slavery actually was,and to put awareness on this horrific topic. Citizens in the south felt like slavery wasn’t something that was uncormatucal or bad. But in my option and in Fredericks narrative it states it as being something inhuman. Also, seen of something that needed to be stopped. Many families got separated and innocent people got killed like if they were a useless piece of trash. Why did just colored people get this kind of treatment, whites were not mightier than slaves in this case. You didn’t see whites killing whites. Those southerners were killing those innocent slaves for just standing up for themselves.
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A piece in Fredericks narrative that stood out to me was, “ You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man”,( Douglass, 58). No man should be made a slave, they were human and werbe born free and dye a free person. They are not attached to any form of document staying you are black and you lose freedom. No man has that right to take that away from anyone. A slave was not less than any Southerner, even though southerners believed slaves were evil and dark.
That was not true, the Bible said dark is like a demon, and white is good a peer. In my opinion Southerners could not fit in that category, so why say that the colored were bad. If Southerners were explotating saves so they could become rich. Religion was viewed differently in the eyes of the Southerners. They saw the Bible and god’s word in the way that the Southerners believed was correct. Frederick Douglass stated in this narrative that, “religious slaveholders were the worst”, ( Douglass 66).
Douglass said that because Southerners saw religion as a way of saying I know this is correct, because god said so. But why would Southerners deprive slaves from reading the Bible. Slaves would relize that no god says this is wrong . Southers said whites were the good and the colored saves were the evil, and by punishing them and making then do anything they wanted would be the best for them. If any one taught slaves to read or write they would get a fine. “ Penalty of $250-500 for teaching and enslaved or free black to read, write, or spell. Also forbade five or more black enslaved males from gathering together”, ( The Antebellum South, Slave Codes, November 9).
This book could caused such a terrifying reaction to the North and South in the ways that because many people like William Lloyd Garrison’s . Believed that slavery was morally wrong and should be perming,y banded. He said that it’s wrong and it should be banned. William wants immediate emancipation, which mean that he wants slave to vanish quickly. But the problem that the South would see with this book that Frederick wrote. Would be that a slave has the enough courage to contradict all of the rules that were set for him and other slaves not to break.
Teaching a slave how to write and read was against the law in the South but Douglass master Hugh’s wife gave Frederick some reading a writing lessons. But once master Hugh’s noticed that his wife was teaching Douglass he told her to stop because he will be knowledgeable of what’s right and wrong. A quote relevant to this would be , “ I got hold of a book entitled The Columbian Orator. Every opportunity I got, I used to read this book. Among much of other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave”, ( Douglass 40-41 ).
This book would cause a strong reaction to the North in the way that if slaves we know be considered and let free. They will possible lose their jobs, because then the African Americans would do the work for less pay. Causing the Notheners to lose their jobs. Southerns would lose the form of economic well-being for them, if slavers would not be promoted then they would not know who to do anything else. Both the South and North will suffer this change, but also it’s inhuman. To capture innocent people then bring then to a unknown place forcing them to work for. Douglass purpose of writing this narrative was to make his and others slaves voices heard. Slaves didn’t have any say in what they felt was wrong, didn’t have the right to disobey their masters.
One of Douglass masters, “Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me, I was broken in body, soul, and spirit,( Douglass 57). Slaves didn’t have any breaks or if they were sick their masters didn’t care. “It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field”, ( Douglass 56-57). The way slaves were treated was not fair at all, they were deprived of freedom, food, a good connotation of housing, cloths, and many other things. White folks thought of themselves superior and colored people were below them. That is why I saw that Douglass narrative was a document that broke those walls and made those citizens blindfolds come off.
Southerners would see it as a propaganda as a design to dishonor them in the way that after all the time that they gave them hushing, and work. Then the Southerners will feel like they got stapled in their backs. But Frederick put out the truth about slavery in the South it wasn’t a colorful and beautiful place to be. Douglass described it as a cold and dark place. Douglass even mentioned in his narrative that he would sometimes go to the forest near his masters home and here all the screams of the other slaves, sadness and sorrows. Many of the real life moments that Frederick lived during were for one which one of this masters Mr.Covey would make them work, “in the weathers”, ( Douglass 56).
Another phrase that I found interesting was , “he bought her, as he said, for a breeder”, ( Douglass 56). Southerners should feel dishonor , even though they didn’t have it in the first place. They should’ve felt dishonor and embarrassment. Because that is not a way on how to treat a human, dispit the color of their skin. They should deprive anyone from their freedom, buy a person and make them their slaves. I’m glad Douglass had the enough courage to break those laws and do what he believed was the correct thing.
Because of him people in the South and North got the blindfold of their eyes. Their were terrible things that were happening in the South and people just decided to not pay attention to it, or they knew that they were human exploitation, but just decided to stay quit. Southerners didn’t want slaves to get education or their children. They didn’t want them to be educated , because if they were then they will know what’s right from wrong. A man named Horace Mann was a director of, Massachusetts Board Of Education. He started , The Common School Movement. Education will “equalize the condition of man”, (Lecture Second Great Awakening (early 1800s), Horace Mann/ The Common School Movement, November 14). This Common School Movement will educates everyone including closed and provide a society with hormone , and political stability.
Another procogsndad that help with the awareness with slavery, was the Anti- Slavery Movement (1820s), it helped ban slavery all throughout the US. William Lloyd wants “immediate emancipation”, he wants to get rid of slavery fast,(Second Great Awakening, William Lloyd Garrison’s , Anti- Slavery Movement (1820s), November 14). Southerners should feel dishonored, because they didn’t do things right if they wanted to become rich. They should of not deprived those free Africans the their freedom, and being them to captabikity. They were free, but evil and needle people decided to hunt them to bring them to a unknown place to make them selves. Fir they they stability and so those Southers can become rich. Another quote that stood out to me was Garrison called Southern slaveholders: “ The most evil beasts God has created”, ( Second Great Awakening, Anti- Slavery Movement (1820s), William Lloyd Garrison’s, November 14).
In conclusion, to my final thoughts on slavery in the south , made me realize that those slaves who were deprived of their freedom for centuries. Suffered so much , Douglass gave real life events that he witnessed when he was a slave. Events that you cannot even imagine really happened. Frederick Douglass told us a brief description that he actually witness during the time he was a slave. Douglass was courage’s man and had enough in him to want a better future for him and fellow slaves. Because if him couragment he brought attention to this topic of slavery. Both Southerners and Northerners realized that they were both evil and didn’t care about anyone’s while being but their know while being. Those “ devils dresses in angels’ robes, and he’ll presenting the semblance of paradise”, (Douglass 94-95). Southerners are so Christian , but they did not fit in that category. They were disgusting people who that that God told them to do all of those horrible things. Southerners were the “Black” and in my eyes slavery were the “White”. In other words Southerners are the demons, and slaves were the angles. “ White looks good in god’s eyes, but Black looks bad in god’s view”, ( The Antebellum South, Race and the planter ideology, November 9).
