Only a man or woman with a backbone of wrought iron, with the strength to persevere against all odds, and the cunning to deceive and survive, could escape the steel grip of slavery in the early 1800's. Such a man was Frederick Douglas. This man survived the trials and tribulations of growing up as a Negro child into adolescence, where he thrived on a hunger for education. As he continued to educate himself, he began to realize the brutality of the slavery that surrounded and suffocated him. His heroic journey from slavery and illiteracy to freedom is a story that has inspired readers for generations. He is an inspiration to his people and to anyone who cares for justice.
As is the case with most children born into slavery, Frederick Douglas was torn from his family at a very early age. Furthermore, since the family is, in essence, a child's home, he never knew a place to call his own. Frederick Douglas had very little contact with his family during his childhood, as they had been packed and shipped to other places. He slept in a sack that covered only the top half of his body, and lived with little or no comfort amidst hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness. .
By a stroke of luck, Frederick's old master chose to send him to Baltimore, where his new mistress gave him a taste of a reading education. This faint taste was enough to give him an insatiable thirst for knowledge, which constantly increased due to his rebellious attitude toward master's lectures on how an educated slave became worthless to both himself and his master. However, while his master and mistress then forbade him the pleasure of learning, he discovered that by befriending the nearby town kids, he could use them to help him learn. He would trick them to compete, to show him what he did not know, for they had no qualms about showing off their education if it were a means of winning in a contest. It was this shrewdness and defiance, along with his ambition, that kept him alive through the rest of his journeys.
In writing, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, author Frederick Douglas details his life story as a man born a slave and subsequent rise to freedom. ... Douglas uses very detailed descriptions of incidents that occurred in his life to himself and others that he witnessed to show what goes on when others are not watching. ... Specifically I like how descriptive Frederick Douglas is. ...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglas was born in Talbot County, Maryland around 1818. ... She dies when Douglas was seven. Douglas's father was said to be a white man. Douglas first master and Captain Antony; the Captain's overseer, Mr. ... Soon after Douglas turned against Covey and beat up Covey along with some other of slaves and Covey never touch Douglas again. ...
Frederick Douglas was a great motivational speaker and skilled writer. ... Frederick Douglas is one of the most underrated scholars of all time. ... Fully educated men do not produce the same quality work as Frederick Douglas. ... Abraham Lincoln cared for the union and Frederick Douglas realized this. ... Blacks everywhere owe Frederick Douglas for his ingenious ways to abolish slavery. ...
This is shown in the lives of Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass produced a newspaper, The North Star, which kept the moral issue of slavery in the public. ... This is seen vividly in The Narrative through one of Frederick Douglas's accounts when he writes "He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until he was overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin." (51) This physical abuse was merciless yet inescapable. ... Frederick Douglas recalls one instance where "There were horses and men, ca...
Frederick Douglas said it perfectly when he said, "By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant." ... Frederick Douglas proved this point. ... Probably not, but Douglas managed to do so merely by wanted to know more. ... This proving that Douglas was human in possessing that ability. ... Douglas now did however. ...
Frederick Douglas "Frederick Douglas" is a poem of a black American and his perspectives during a time when blacks were slaves and had no civil rights to a time when they had freedom. ... The author brings a historical view of Douglas's past as a slave when he writes "this former slave". ...
Frederic Douglas For someone who was not educated in rhetoric, Frederick Douglas became one of the more prominent anti-slavery speakers of his day. ... From this point on Douglas dedicated his life to the emancipation and the elevation of his enslaved class (pg. 1084). ... The more Douglas learned, the more he craved to learn. ... Education to Douglas was his ticket to freedom. The sentence that seemed to grab my attention more than any other comes from Douglas" My Bondage and My Freedom on page 1075. ...
Frederick had a certain charm and was able to effectively articulate himself. ... In 1847, connections made in Britain had paid for his Freedom; Douglas was safe to return to America. Upon returning to America, Douglas totally immersed himself into the black slavery problem and became devoted to help in any and every way. ... Douglas was present at the first feminist convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848. Along with Elizabeth Stanton, a woman's rights activist and abolitionist, Douglas signed the Declaration of Sentiments that became woman's rights movement formal manifesto. ...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Frederick gradually learned to read and write. ... Frederick began to detest slavery. ... Frederick was in jail for about a week. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
