SLAVERY IN NARRATIVEOF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS essays

SLAVERY IN NARRATIVEOF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS essays It is well known that all American countries have been colonized. Some were colonized as settlement colonies but great majority was colonized as exploration colonies. The exploration was a very important fact that affected, for example, not only the social development of the exploited human being since the native habitants and/or the slaves that had to work under really bad circumstances and conditions were not treated as human beings but also the masters that had to fight with the conflict of ideas. All kinds of mistreatments and suffers can be seen in the text of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was himself a slave and passed through all kinds of mistreatments the slaves used to pass. In his Narrative it is possible to see that slaves did not have any right although they were the ones who worked, being responsible for the enrichment of their master, consequently for the country. Slaves could not celebrate their birthday since they did not know the exact day in which they had born and they had no birth certificate: I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs. It means that they had the same rights as animals not as human beings. Besides, the slaves could not ask anything for their master: I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. This fact reinforces ignorance and robs from children their natural sense of individual identity. Another common aspect concerned masters and slaves is that master abused of slave women and their children were also treat as slaves: My father was a white man....The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father... ; ...that children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers,... and if the relation bet...