Women In Frederick Douglass
Chelsea Garcia
English III- 1st
Mrs. James
5th March 2014
Treatment and Roles of Women
A man who fought for his rights, thought himself the knowledge to freedom, and wrote a book, Frederick Douglass. He was on the slaves that couldn’t deal with the fact that his race accepted to be tormented and treated terribly. He knew he had to do something to revise this so he then on went to teaching himself varieties of things and sooner than later, he ended up with his very own narrative that is throughout the world. In the ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’, he first discusses his life time and what lead to his narrative, and also explains the treatment and roles of women by using anecdotes, victimization of female slaves, and description …show more content…
How could someone separate a mother and her child just because they’re slaves? They never really choose this type of life, they just got extremely unlucky. Women had no freedom, no right to do anything. Frederick saw this very disturbing, the fact that women would get beat for no reason, murdered with no respect left, dead just as a burning wood just there left to rot. This was unfair, this couldn’t have been right. In his narrative, Douglass tells many anecdotes which he has witnessed, like his aunt that got beat to death just for having another relation to another person. Even if she disobeyed his orders, what gives her master the right to beat her brutally for such a small reason? Masters would beat their slaves for any little reason, mostly the women. Frederick used all these anecdotes to show how poorly women got …show more content…
Douglass explained and described his early lifetime and what lead to his narrative. He’s related anecdotes of poor treatment, the victimization, and roles women had done. Now, I would say that Douglass is indeed a very intelligent man due to him accomplishing many things others couldn’t he understood what the key to freedom was. It was knowledge, and that knowledge got him to write his famous book that is considered a narrative to be called ‘The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” (Word Count
English III- 1st
Mrs. James
5th March 2014
Treatment and Roles of Women
A man who fought for his rights, thought himself the knowledge to freedom, and wrote a book, Frederick Douglass. He was on the slaves that couldn’t deal with the fact that his race accepted to be tormented and treated terribly. He knew he had to do something to revise this so he then on went to teaching himself varieties of things and sooner than later, he ended up with his very own narrative that is throughout the world. In the ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’, he first discusses his life time and what lead to his narrative, and also explains the treatment and roles of women by using anecdotes, victimization of female slaves, and description …show more content…
How could someone separate a mother and her child just because they’re slaves? They never really choose this type of life, they just got extremely unlucky. Women had no freedom, no right to do anything. Frederick saw this very disturbing, the fact that women would get beat for no reason, murdered with no respect left, dead just as a burning wood just there left to rot. This was unfair, this couldn’t have been right. In his narrative, Douglass tells many anecdotes which he has witnessed, like his aunt that got beat to death just for having another relation to another person. Even if she disobeyed his orders, what gives her master the right to beat her brutally for such a small reason? Masters would beat their slaves for any little reason, mostly the women. Frederick used all these anecdotes to show how poorly women got …show more content…
Douglass explained and described his early lifetime and what lead to his narrative. He’s related anecdotes of poor treatment, the victimization, and roles women had done. Now, I would say that Douglass is indeed a very intelligent man due to him accomplishing many things others couldn’t he understood what the key to freedom was. It was knowledge, and that knowledge got him to write his famous book that is considered a narrative to be called ‘The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” (Word Count