Frederick Douglass Thesis

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Paper #1 The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” is based on himself showing us his life as a slave and his road to freedom. Fredrick Douglas is the protagonist, who was the author and narrator of the story. When he was born he was separated from his mother at birth (Harriet Bailey). Captain Anthony was Douglass’s first owner and most likely to be his Father. Captain Anthony was the Clerk of a rich man named Colonel Edward Lloyd. Colonel Edward Lloyd was a very wealthy man who owned hundreds of slaves including Douglass. Later Douglass is sent to Baltimore to live with Hugh Auld and Sophia Auld, where Sophia starts very kind to Douglass and starts to teach him how to read and write but later stops from Hugh. Captain Thomas Auld was …show more content…

“I wish I could describe the rapture that flashed through my soul” (Douglass 26). This when he described first meeting Sophia Auld. This was a much different view of when he first Colonel Lloyd (whom he never liked). Another Difference between Maryland and Baltimore was that the sleeping arrangements were a lot different. In Maryland he describes sleeping in Colonel Lloyds plantation as being absolutely terrible. “I was kept almost naked—no shoes, no stockings, no jacket, no trousers, nothing on but a coarse tow linen shirt, reaching only to my knees. I had no bed. I must have perished with cold, but that, the coldest nights, I used to steal a bag which was used for carrying corn to the mill” (Douglass 23). This differs a lot from when he got shipped over to Baltimore and lived with Mr. and Mrs. Auld. “A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation. He is much better fed and clothed, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to the slave on the plantation” (Douglass 30). This shows that he much preferred Baltimore and then Maryland when comes down to these things. My last difference between his times in Maryland And Baltimore was that he was treated with a lot more respect in Baltimore compared to Maryland. Mrs. Auld actually talked to Douglass like a human compared to when he lived on Colonel Lloyd …show more content…

I would probably thank him and completely agree him. As this man said that his relatives never owned slaves and you couldn’t blame them. I would somewhat agree to this form some of my experiences. It reminded of a time with a young white man who wanted us learn about the New Testament. “Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament.” (Douglass 48). It showed that this man cared about African American’s and hopes that his relatives were like the same way. Being a slave was the worst experience of my life and I would like to share some of my experiences with

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