The chapter I was given to look at was called "The Freedom of Slavery". ... Near the beginning of this chapter, the writer claims, "This is not an endorsement of slaveryit is an argument that many freedoms we now cherish were only available to slaves in early America, and that citizenship in the young republic was a terribly constrained thing.... The songs and the dancing that the white men saw as a sort of freedom they weren't afforded were the only things we, as slaves, had to keep our souls from dying. ... That we could be whipped, at any time, or used sexually, or sold ...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The past is the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical... In the book Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, he relays the message, to the entire country, about how horrible and degrading this actually was. ... His mother died when Douglass was about seven years old and he saw he death just as if she was a stranger because they rarely saw one another. ... Douglass describes a Reverend Rigby Hopkins in Chapter 10. ...

• Word Count: 568
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The very first chapter of the novel produces the first example: loss of identity. ... Douglass here identifies himself as a human being lacking what we may consider a normal childhood simply through the use of dates. We identify ourselves by the dates, which surround the events of our lives. ... For if neither of the two ever happened, it is extremely probable that Douglass would have died in the trenches of slavery. ... After years of dutiful service to her master, she is cast off to die alone. ...

• Word Count: 884
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the first chapters he talks about horrible scenes he sees in his childhood. ... Harriet Bailey is his mother who died when was born. ... The first example of where this theme is seen is when his mother dies. ... To tell his own real account of how life was of a slave. ... Like many of us who want to be independent, after getting what we want, we feel insecure and lonely. ...

• Word Count: 1005
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School