Analyzing Frederick Douglass 'Abolishing Slave'

Abolishing Slavery.
The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an american slave is an autobiographical narrative. He expresses his perspective of slavery and the horrific events that was brought along with. The narrative was mainly meant for white northerners to grasp the knowledge of what slavery really was and why it should be extinguished. The fundamental reason why Frederick Douglass didn’t accept slavery was because the negative effect that not only left on the slaves, but also their masters. Douglass knows his audience are christians furthermore, he uses religion and many other key moments in reaching his objective. which is ending slavery once and for all.
For instance, Douglass was being separated from his mother as in infant not knowing who she is? Well Douglass uses this aspect from his childhood as a step closer in reaching his goal to ending slavery. For example,in chapter one he mentions how he was separated from from his mother. He says “It is a common custom in the

part of maryland from which I ran away from to part children from their mother at a very early age” This demonstrates how a slave owner not only controlled the relationship between a mother and its child, but also their emotions. Which is preventing them from establishing bonds with another slave, and prevent them from learning about their ancestry, Douglass knows his audience are parents. So he knows the emotions he would get out of this would be outraged and remorseful.They would feel these emotions because a parent specifically, a mother can’t ever imagine their children being separated from them. For them it would be cruel and appalling. Which is why they would want to end slavery.
Douglass also describes how slavery not only affects the slaves but therefor, slaveholders as well.

In page 31 douglass says “Thus slavery the enemy of both the slaves and the slaveholders” Throughout, the whole narrative douglass mentions the many barbarous and inhuman beatings the slaves got. For example, treating slaves as animals, abusing them, being ill but yet no matter what you had to work, and many horrific and racist insults, such as the word “nigger” and labor system. Although, it was not only slaves who were affected but also slaveholders. While slaveholders did these traits, they slowly started developing and became violent, greedy, cruel, inhuman, unsympathetic and cold-blooded. Douglass is trying to make his audience angry when they see how slavery has influenced them in such a bad way. This tells them what horrible people they are. They would contrast how they were before a slaveholder to a slaveholder now. This is why would want his christian readers to stop

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Douglass uses many great metaphors, rhetorical, and imagery way of storytelling. One way he uses is in page forty nine. He talks about freedom and and how it feels like to be a slave. “You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly around the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I was free!” This would make the audience feel sentimental and astonished, because of the characteristic douglass uses. His purpose of writing this was to arouse their emotions, they fail to think slaves are capable of anything. Farmost writing something like this. He’s trying to say that salves can do about anything, and be educated. Many of his audience might feel inspired by his way of writing and look up to him and might view their perspective of slaves differently. For example, Shakespeare is known for the best writer of all time. Some of his works are about life, love, death, and etc. Many people look up to him and are inspired bc of his writing. In a similar way, that is Frederick Douglass. Which may be one of the reasons why his audience would want to stop slavery. His narrative is all however the way he explains every detail with a limited of education astonishes me.