Frederick Douglass Alternate Ending

The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass gives readers a detailed overview of the life of a slave who share his own personal experiences and struggles from a slave to a freeman.  Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot county, Maryland. He was the son of Harriet Bailey and his father was a white man  (Douglass 1). After living with his master for nine months, Frederick was sent to stay with Mr. Covey, a man who is known for “breaking down young slaves” (Douglass 34). But while he was at Mr Covey’s Douglass faced many struggles.

In the book Narrative of The Life of Fredrick Douglass, and American Slave, we find that Fredrick went through a lot of manipulating and diminishable acts. Some are: being separated from his mother at birth, being whipped, witnessing aunt Hester being whipped as a kid, not getting enough to eat, a deprivement of clothes, and witnessing old Barney getting killed. Slave owners would do this to make slaves inferior and also have insurance that the slaves won’t run away. Despite these horrific conditions, Douglass through standing up to Mr. Covey, Learning to read and write, and earning his own money, eventually got the skill and courage to escape slavery.

The narrative begins with Douglass being oblivious to the identity of his father. This theme of Frederick Douglass being young and naïve is continued throughout the beginning. The idea of slaves being young and naïve is seen in almost all slave narratives. One of the ways slave owners kept slaves captive is through keeping the slaves ignorant. It is nearly impossible for a slave to escape slavery if they cannot read and write. Slave owners knew how impossible this was so they kept them ignorant, they kept them from learning. Since ignorance is what seems to hold slaves captive, one could easily conclude that knowledge is the key to freedom. Douglass figured this out at a young age. He starts learning from Mrs. Auld but eventually ends up

The beast limped towards me, its eyes glowing red like the color of my blood, adrenaline pumps quickly throughout my body, it charges, hooves clacking along the cold dirt floor, its shaggy fur dripping with warm crimson blood. My breath is fast as I leap towards it, dagger raised. It punctures the soft skin, tearing the flesh of its bony chest. I follow the pattern; leap, stab, tear, duck, roll, aim for thigh and roll again. It howls in rage and leaps at me, its claws outstretched, I hold out my blade as it crashes into it, the knife reaching its' now motionless heart. Another comes at me, wanting to seek revenge for its fallen brother. It roars, spikes flaring in and out of

In the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Douglass portrays his entire life and adventures. He also explains how it was like to live in that era for slaves and even some of the slaveholders too. I selected to write about how douglass believed not only slavery had a negative effect on slaves but their masters also. In this essay I am gonna try to assert not only my opinion but Douglass’s too as slaveholders changed not only in lifestyle but as a person as well. Also i am going to describe the feelings for that time in general how slavery change the world in many ways in the past and now.

Frederick Douglass in his writing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave, he acts sometimes as a protagonist and sometimes as a narrator. He was a former slave, and his writing was about that. He made an effort to present the realistic issue of the slavery at that time. As was showed on the writing, he was a person that wanted to help others, especially slaves because he knew how it was. In his writing he narrow his emotion and others who had suffered the same think.

Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, orator, and writer. He became the leader of the of the abolitionist movement after escaping from slavery and publishing his autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. His narrative showed white anti-slavery sympathizers, how slaves were brutalized by the slave holding system. Harriet Jacobs was an African American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and published the book in 1861 under the name of Linda Brent. By reading slave narrative written by male and female is the idea of their experience as male or female such that

Slavery, as a form of labor, has not inflamed a whole-scale political and social crisis more seriously anywhere than in the United States during the nineteenth century. In fact, the slaves were forced, kidnapped or “born” to be the suppressed and were not only required to perform endless labor, but also tortured, suppressed and bestially destroyed in numerous heartless ways — physically and mentally. However, a few decades before the outbreak of the civil war, it was barely possible for the ordinary to know about the details of how the slaves lived in the south due to several factors such as the limit of communications. Fortunately, Fredrick Douglass, an educated run-away slave, wrote and published “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a touching story about a man who was born into a life thrust upon him before he was even born. He describes the life of an American slave in grotesque detail. Throughout his life Douglass underwent uncountable whippings and beatings from his owners. After undergoing many hardships, Douglass found a way to escape enslavement and enter a life of freedom, where he eventually chose to tell his story through this narrative.

Douglass’s main purpose in writing the first two chapters of his narrative is to inform and argue against the institution of slavery. Frederick Douglass begins the narrative by explaining that he doesn’t know how old he is because it is common for many slave holders to keep their slaves as ignorant as possible. Douglass reveals the brutality of slavery in his narrative by informing his audience about events like the death of his mother, the beating his aunt Hester received and the ignorance slave masters wanted to have within the slave population. In his narrative, Douglass exposes the wrongness in slavery by telling his personal experiences. This was different from other publications at the time since they were often written by northern abolitionists who had never been exposed to slavery but they were still fighting against the practice of slavery.

During the 19th Century, slaves were misrepresented to the general population, or, non-slaveholders as “The freest people of the world” due to the fact, according to Fitzhugh’s article, “They enjoy liberty, because they oppressed neither by care or labor”; However, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, refutes the “facts” commonly given out to the public through a very detailed personal account of Frederick’s life as a young slave growing up between multiple slave plantations in Maryland, and the up-and-coming city of Baltimore. While reading through the Narrative, one might come to the understanding that, only the person on top of history actually writes history, and the narrative is the one of the first well-known documents that

Frederick Douglass was a slave for slightly more than the first quarter of his life. In his autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” readers learn that Frederick never knew his birthday while growing up and had no idea what the date or year was on a common day until he grew older. However, scholars later learned that Douglass was born in 1818, died in 1895, and escaped slavery in 1838. Once Douglass escaped slavery, he spent the next three quarters of his life working to eradicate the idea of slavery entirely and became a boisterous abolitionist. The first step to his becoming an abolitionist came through the publication of his previously mentioned autobiography. Obviously, not all African American slaves could become abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, but all slaves could resist slavery in simpler ways. These ranges of slave resistance included both large and small acts such as running away, slowing production, stealing, and organizing violence. Though Douglass is known primarily as one of the greatest scholarly combatants of slavery of all time, his autobiography shows that his initial means of resisting slavery were comparable to these less scholarly forms of slave resistance. His transformation from slave to renowned verbal abolitionist could not have occurred without his initial forms of opposition. “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” serves as a personal account of Douglass’s experiences with both slave resistance and

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as a son of a slave woman in Maryland 1818. As a kid Frederick did not see his mother a lot, she died when he was around the age of seven or eight. A few years later, Frederick was placed into the hands of Thomas Auld. Thomas Aulds sister in law, Sophia began to teach Frederick how to read, her husband Hugh insisted that she stop. He stated that if a slave were to read, he would learn enough to want to be free. Frederick later on described this as a ‘Decidedly antislavery lecture”. But as a kid that did not stop him; Frederick kept learning to read from the white children in his neighborhood, he began to read anything he could. One of those things was a lesson book designed for education and public

“The Dragon” is a book he wrote. It is like a cartoon in a newspaper. The dragon eye is a like a train light. The mouth is the front of the train. The to people ran at the train but they thought it was the dragon. One of the people got hit by the train and the guy flew through the sky. The other guy ran away from the train coming after them.

This morning, the king received word that a fire-snorting dragon was again terrorizing the countryside. It is scaring the people of his kingdom, and they want to leave their land. He summoned his legion of knights and advisors to the castle for a meeting.