The Cruelty Of Slavery

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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I have a strong impulse to see it tried on them personally.”- Abraham Lincoln. Slavery, a word that could cause an uproar or bring someone to their knees sobbing. For long you have been made less than you are. That all changes with us Northerners trying to convince Southerners that slavery is bad and everyone has the right to freedom. No one should be treated like they are animals worth nothing, with little value. The way they act can sometimes make them seem as though they had no one to guide them even if they were there for a short time. Although it may seem that way, they only act like that because they are scared and is a way to try and protect themselves. “ Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he …show more content…

The cruelty of stripping them from even the one thing that makes them, them. It doesn’t stop there, it goes on to the separation of their parents at a young age. “ My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant - before I knew her as my mother”(Douglass page 1) They were separated to make sure nothing hindered them from working. Keeping them from their family made them have issues and sometimes they wouldn’t know anything about where they came from. With that they could move around and not have any connections that would stop them from moving. Despite that they wouldn’t know how it feels to be cared about and have some form of sympathy. “ Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.”(Douglass page 2)He explains that without that same care of a mother when his died he didn’t feel anything. Although they might say that is something good, it is not because that could later affect them in their own

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