Frederick Douglass was an American slave boy in Maryland. He was born sometime in 1818, though the date is not exactly known. Many slave-owners thought it best to keep information on a slave’s birth from them, almost so the slaves would think that they, themselves, weren't quite human.
Life for Frederick was difficult, to put it lightly. He began life with his mother until she was sent away. He was then enslaved under Captain Anthony, of whom it was believed to be Frederick’s father. Someone that actually had a positive impact on Frederick’s life, at first, was Sophia Auld, who started out as an affectionate, sweet, and tender-hearted woman. She treated Frederick like a human being, seeing as how he was her first slave, and she had never had one before. She taught him the ABC’s and would have taught him how to read if her husband, Hugh Auld, had not intervened, explaining how he thought a slave ought to be treated. Mr. Auld thought that if slaves had an education they would consider themselves to be equal to the whites and that they had rights. Afterward, Sophia became accustomed to having slaves and became cruel and harsh, not being the kind-hearted woman she had once been. Therefore, Frederick took matters into his own hands. He agreed with Hugh Auld to an extent; with knowledge came power. So he set off to learn how to read and write; one of his sources was the poor white boys his age. …show more content…
Their friendship had sent him in the right direction and he had enjoyed being around people that didn’t see him as a lowly slave. In due time, after all of the beatings Frederick had endured from different “masters”, he made his escape from slavery on September 3rd 1838. To list a few of his accomplishments, Frederick Douglass got married and had 5 children, was an orator for the abolitionist movement, supported women’s rights, and was such an articulate, intelligent, and deep feeling man with a big heart. This is what slavery did to so many slave owners; it taints what good they have and ruins them. Therefore, they need to justify themselves by twisting what the Bible says about slaves, and how we are slaves of Christ. We are not meant to be masters, or above each other. Yes, there are people that have higher ranks than others, but not spiritually. We are all slaves under God. We are His sheep and He is our Shepherd. Yet, so many people saw slaves as a right, as if they deserved them. I believe this is all branched off of guilt. Though there are those that would believe that having slaves was just apart of life, the root of it is sin. They knew that it wasn’t right to have slaves, evident by the fact that they would not tell their slaves the date of their own birth. “Slave Masters” didn’t want their slaves to realize that what their masters were doing was wrong. Nonetheless they continued to treat slaves in such a horrible way, in which pain was the most used discipline. Becoming so corrupt in sin that they didn’t know whether they were sinning or not. You might say that there is an excuse, they didn’t know what they were doing was wrong. But
Life for Frederick was difficult, to put it lightly. He began life with his mother until she was sent away. He was then enslaved under Captain Anthony, of whom it was believed to be Frederick’s father. Someone that actually had a positive impact on Frederick’s life, at first, was Sophia Auld, who started out as an affectionate, sweet, and tender-hearted woman. She treated Frederick like a human being, seeing as how he was her first slave, and she had never had one before. She taught him the ABC’s and would have taught him how to read if her husband, Hugh Auld, had not intervened, explaining how he thought a slave ought to be treated. Mr. Auld thought that if slaves had an education they would consider themselves to be equal to the whites and that they had rights. Afterward, Sophia became accustomed to having slaves and became cruel and harsh, not being the kind-hearted woman she had once been. Therefore, Frederick took matters into his own hands. He agreed with Hugh Auld to an extent; with knowledge came power. So he set off to learn how to read and write; one of his sources was the poor white boys his age. …show more content…
Their friendship had sent him in the right direction and he had enjoyed being around people that didn’t see him as a lowly slave. In due time, after all of the beatings Frederick had endured from different “masters”, he made his escape from slavery on September 3rd 1838. To list a few of his accomplishments, Frederick Douglass got married and had 5 children, was an orator for the abolitionist movement, supported women’s rights, and was such an articulate, intelligent, and deep feeling man with a big heart. This is what slavery did to so many slave owners; it taints what good they have and ruins them. Therefore, they need to justify themselves by twisting what the Bible says about slaves, and how we are slaves of Christ. We are not meant to be masters, or above each other. Yes, there are people that have higher ranks than others, but not spiritually. We are all slaves under God. We are His sheep and He is our Shepherd. Yet, so many people saw slaves as a right, as if they deserved them. I believe this is all branched off of guilt. Though there are those that would believe that having slaves was just apart of life, the root of it is sin. They knew that it wasn’t right to have slaves, evident by the fact that they would not tell their slaves the date of their own birth. “Slave Masters” didn’t want their slaves to realize that what their masters were doing was wrong. Nonetheless they continued to treat slaves in such a horrible way, in which pain was the most used discipline. Becoming so corrupt in sin that they didn’t know whether they were sinning or not. You might say that there is an excuse, they didn’t know what they were doing was wrong. But