It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours, – I always felt it was, – I always thought so when I was a girl, – I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over, – I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom – fool that I was!" (5-27). Through this quote Stowe showed how she was feeling through her work. She felt that everyone she hear about this abomination. .
In Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, he told his story through his own perspective. He gave his entire life run down till he was free. In his story he told us all the hardships he was faced with. He talked about although his father was white; he still got treated as if he was fully African American. Also, when he had to be separated from him mother at an early age, how he couldn't mourn for a stranger. "Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with the much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger." (1.4). Through his story, he wanted us to see that slavery just doesn't take you away from your family, but it restricted them from even having a family. The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. "I found no severe trial in my departure. My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could have enjoyed by staying. My mother was dead; my grandmother lived far off, so that I seldom saw her. I had two sisters and one brother that lived in the same house with me; but the early separation of us from our mother had well nigh blotted the fact of our relationship from our memories. I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of finding none which I should relish less than the one which I was leaving.
