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This 5 page paper looks at this slave's famous narrative and examines his ideas about the institution. The focus of this paper is on Douglass's condemnation of slavery. Direct quotes are provided. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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knowledge comes from the experiences of slaves, slave traders whose consciences got the better of them and early Christians who saw a discrepancy between their actions and their words.
These ideas of the incompatibility of slavery with the fundamentals of American principles were ideals which have been handed down and which continue to live today. Much of the information
that Americans have today about slavery have emanated from the words of those who lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In fact, there have been many diaries of slaves
and slave traders surface hundreds of years after the fact. They tell dismal tales of maltreatment of Africans who were taken from their native territories and sold to Americans as
enslaved farm hands. They were bought and sold just as any commodity. While some slave owners were somewhat humane, decent people, there were far too many who mistreated their own
slaves which include such acts as rape and beatings. There has been some suggestion that the horrors of slavery existed only in the south but the racial antipathy for
African Americans was practically as strong in the north as in the south according to others. Most northerners and all white southerners regarded abolitionists as a threat to the
union. This view was held largely because the issue was more than one of fairness or humanity. There was a great deal of money riding on the preservation of slavery
and thus, it was above all, an economic concern. In reviewing Frederick Douglasss autobiographical piece, entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave, a number of questions
crop up. Aside from lingering questions, answers as to the reasons for the proliferation of slavery, also come through. One question which looms large is why was slavery so bad?
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