Difference Between Mary And Frederick Douglass Freedom

The Struggle for Freedom: A Narrative of Captivity

At the beginning of both stories they tell you about Mary’s and Frederick's story before they were taken, to give you a sense of who they were before. In Mary's narrative, the story tells you

about her husband, kids and her life as a simple housewife. “In 1656, Mary White married the

English- born, Harvard- educated Joseph Rowlandson, Lancaster's first minister. She bore four children, the first of whom died in infancy (Emory University). At the beginning of the Frederick

Douglass story, it talks about his life as a kid and how he was taken from his home at the age of seven. “At age seven, Douglass is sent to work for Hugh auld, a ship

In his narrative he states “before I knew her as my mother, four or five times of my life". A difference between the two narratives is the fact that Mary's narrative enraged Puritans to want to kill more Indians and in Frederick Douglass’s narrative he inspired people and become a better person for it. Even though Mary and Frederick were both facing similar situations, she didn't have to worry about being sold into slavery, Frederick Douglass never had the opportunity to have an education.

When people look at Mary's situation they see it as being wrong, but in Frederick Douglass's case was a part of everyday life. It was perfectly legal to own slaves and treat them any way you pleased. A majority of whites considered blacks as tools. Things could have been much worse for Douglass if he was in the Deep South, things were far worse down there compared to

Maryland. One critic said " his childhood was relatively happy until he was transferred to the plantation of Anthony's employer Colonel Edward Lloyd (denotes). By the end of the story

Mary might be able to understand what

Frederick is going through to a certain extent but she will never be able to understand being singled out because the color of your skin. She will never understand being torn from her parents and having no one there to help because what they were doing is considered legal. Just imagine how different it would have been for her if what the Indians were doing was legal and no one cared about what she had to say.

One of the reasons that I think that Mary Rowlandson has changed is because it says at one point of the story, it says that she was eating raw parts of animals, this is something that she would have done if this had happened. I also think that Rowlandson has change her few points about Indians because she mentioned that god is punishing the Puritans because of their acts towards the Indians. She said " . . . God strengthened them to be a scourge to His people" because " . . . our perverse and evil carriages in the sight of the

Lord, have so offended Him, that instead of turning His hand against them, the Lord feeds and nourishes them up to be a scourge to the whole land (North California state

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