What Are The Rewards Of Frederick Douglass's Slave Life

What where the reasons Fredrick Douglas loathed his slave life? When I read a short excerpt on Douglas I learned Three things. First, I learned how Douglas loathed his enslavers. Next, I learned how he remembered his past life ,and how it came back to taunt him. Finally, I learned how he fantasized being an animal so he could emancipate his mind from thinking. How does this effect his life through the narrative.

At the beginning of the narrative Douglas has a flashback. He remembers when he was a boy living in Baltimore. He recalls Auld , his masters wife, taught him how to read. Douglas was told that would make him unfit for slavery ,but later figured out that was not the case. Douglas also wishes he back at that time so he did not have

to work hours on end without pay.

Douglas makes the enslavers sound like criminals. Douglas loathed the enslavers. He says, “ They stole us from our homes in Africa ,and degraded us in a strange land to work.” He also calls them “ the meanest as well as the wickedest of men.” Douglas proved the nicest people in the world could hate someone.

Douglas often wishes he was an animal. He wanted to be the meanest of reptiles. He could get rid of anything he wanted in his mind. He hated knowing how to read encase this opened his mind up to freedom which made it harder to work. If he was an animal he could emancipate his mind from thinking.

In conclusion Douglas just hated his slave life. He wanted to be an animal so he could get rid of thinking. He hated knowing how to read. He even made the enslavers sound like criminals. The nicest people in the corrupt world can even have bad things happen to them.