The Role Of African Americans In Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

Underneath the racial hierarchy possesses the truth behind why slaves are subjected to harsh labor work. Slaves worked hard from morning till night cooking, cultivating, and relentlessly laboring. Moreover, if they did not behave, they would undergo terrifying predicament such as being tortured in front of their peers as a way to discourage rebellion. Although African Americans were known as minorities, they had played an important role in the American Revolution. Slaves had helped the Patriots win and shaped what is now “America”, yet no benefits were given. When the British created myriads of tax laws, to earn more money because of debt, the Patriots started to believe that they could gain their independence again. Believing these dreams, the Patriot told the slaves that they could be “free” at last , if they helped fight.
However, the Patriots were misleading the slaves in a dreadful way. After the Revolutionary War ended, the slaves were forced to go back to their former life, doing hard labor. In the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, we can see the negative effects of being a slave through the eye of Frederick Douglass. The slave owner would sexual abuse, use violence, and brutality on the slaves as if they were an animal .The Founding Father used “freedom” as an excuse to take advantage of the slaves to get them to destroy the British Rulers but the Founding Fathers did not possess the courage to free the slaves after the Revolutionary War as they feared that the backlash they receive from the slaveowners would waste their