They were not seen as human, and were thought to be ignorant, this was argued by Douglass, who, while giving his Fourth of July speech, pointed out that African Americans held esteemed positions such as “lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers” (Douglass, para. 39) The term brute was often used to describe the African American population. They were also seen as wild animals, traded and sold from one slave owner to another without a second thought. Slaves, according to Douglass, were “reared like swine for the market” (Douglass, para. 50 ) They were seen as nothing more than property, to be like “marketable commodities, as goods and chattels” (Garrison, 68.). Garrison also makes the point that it is because of the dark color of their skin that they “suffer the pangs of hunger, the infliction of stripes, the ignominy of brutal servitude”
They were not seen as human, and were thought to be ignorant, this was argued by Douglass, who, while giving his Fourth of July speech, pointed out that African Americans held esteemed positions such as “lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers” (Douglass, para. 39) The term brute was often used to describe the African American population. They were also seen as wild animals, traded and sold from one slave owner to another without a second thought. Slaves, according to Douglass, were “reared like swine for the market” (Douglass, para. 50 ) They were seen as nothing more than property, to be like “marketable commodities, as goods and chattels” (Garrison, 68.). Garrison also makes the point that it is because of the dark color of their skin that they “suffer the pangs of hunger, the infliction of stripes, the ignominy of brutal servitude”