Fredrick Douglas

            Through out history people have been treating blacks not as humans but as infidels, which cant distinguishes color as a face but utmost as a subject of work. Fredrick Douglass was a man, which wanted more than to be a slave but a freeman,. He wanted people to look at him as an individual, and take pride in who he is. He relates his power to his past and his owners, which had owned him. Slave's " masters "(or owners) looked at slaves only as help but not humans. Taking their dignity as well as their reason to live, through mental and physical harm. Theses slaves would overcome such anguish threw differ varieties and methods. A different view on slavery would have to be Robert Fogal and Stanley Engerman both historians who wrote the book "Time on the cross". They state that the slaves did have a bad atmosphere, but not as bad as they tell it. They feel that the slaves, which aren't slaves any more, expand and embellish their stories about their owners, to make it look they had it harder than they really did. .
             Through mental abuse, slave ship was not a fancy; they were treated and yelled at constantly for doing wrong dwellings as well as right ones. Their masters would force mental apposition to the slaves making them realize that they will never be free and only thing they have in this world is work. " The first call was given, Demby made no response, but stood his ground. The second and third call but as the same as the first there was no result. Mr. Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving him an additional call, raised his musket to his face, and taking deadly aim at his victim, and then in a poor instant Demby was no more (Douglas 14) ". This quote showed how the master of this slave was showing an example for the other slaves not to disobey his orders or order would be dwelt with. This fear went throughout each slaves mind, brainwashing them to do nothing but good, or get killed.