Similarities Between Shyma And Frederick Douglass

Having the right to make your own decisions is more than just a simple right. It means everything making your own decisions is what make you yourself. Without it there’s no freedom, you don’t get to be your independent self. Because everything you do is decided by someone else.

The slave girl in California is about a young girl named Shyima. Shyima lost her liberty at a young age. She was enslaved as a child due to her family financial struggles. Shyimas family saw slavery as the only way out of their poverty. Shyima had no word in this decision she had no choice, therefor her liberty was stolen from her. She was too young to understand what was happening. Liberty was taken from you no matter what type of slave you were that’s one thing Shyima story and Fredrick Douglas had in common they had no choice.
For example for Frederick Douglas, he wasn’t aloud to know his own age. Something as simple as your own identity was confiscated from slaves. In Shyimas case she couldn't go to school, her right of having an education was taken from her. Injustice isn’t always about wealth injustice can be referred to many things but during this time the injustice was more towards the lifestyle that was chosen for slaves.

slaves were not only treated like objects but they were sold for amounts of money. They were being trafficked around the globe. No one really thought anything more of it. They thought slaves had no sort of emotions. Fredrick Douglas was taken from his mom at a young age to become a slave. At a plantation, he same as Shyima did not choose his lifestyle some one else did for him. Shyimas family choose her destiny. She ended up with a family and moving to california