“Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass” is a book about the life of a black slave living in the south side of America in the 18oo’s.This book show’s how the life of a slave was not easy because they go weeks with out food just working in the fields and living in hard conditions. The life of these slaves was also hard because if the slave owners don’t want one of the slaves any more than they just sell them like they’re a piece of merchandise in a store. This happened to Douglass many times in his life.
Fredrick Douglass is considered a hero too many people not only slaves because he stood up to his masters and did not let them control him. For example he stood up to Edward Covey in January of 1833: this was the first day of Douglass working in the fields and he had to lead some unbroken oxen’s which he barely escaped for his life. Covey saw him failing at leading them and told him to take off his cloths for punishment which was whipping with cow skin. Douglass refused and covey tore off his clothes and whipped him covey continued punishing Douglass occasionally until august 1833 after a hot day when Douglass collapsed and got punished and ran in to the woods where he went to Thomas auld’s house and complained but it did not help cause auld made Douglass go back to the covey farm but Douglass just hid in the cornfields and went back in to the forest a little while after where he met another slave whose name was Sandy Jenkins who told Douglass a root to take from a tree in the forest when he goes back to the fields so he wont get punished. Douglass did not believe sandy bet thought he would try it so he went back to the covey field and covey was being nice to Douglass though and Douglass believed that the root worked so Douglass mostly did what he wanted. But one day Covey caught Douglass at the stables and started to tie his legs but Douglass decided to fight back and grabbed Coveys throat so he would not whip him. Covey was so scared so he called two of his slaves but one got pushed down by Douglass and the other was too scared to fight douglass.Covey and Douglass fought for two hours and Covey never touched Douglass again. I probably would not have the courage to fight back because I would be too afraid of getting killed so Douglass is like a hero for me because he had the courage to do something that I would have no courage to do.
I think the importance of this book is to make people see how the slaves felt and to go in their situation and realize that having slaves is a bad idea because like our school golden rule “You should treat others the way you want to be treated”. Also this book is important because slavery was one of the sad parts of the United States history. People need to remember why and how it happened so that we can make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Reaction:
I feel like no one has the write to own another human being because blacks have the exact same rights of being in this world and living their life the way they want to as anyone else does. This book made my idea that slavery was one of the worst things that happened in history just more strong. I think that god is in all of us and helps us get through the hard times just like Fredrick Douglas.
Comparing Anne Frank and Fredrick Douglass:
They both had to deal with discrimination against their race and both could not live their life the way they wanted to.
I think that Anne Frank was better than Fredrick Douglass for me because I mostly knew about the black slaves because that was in America but I did not know much about the Jews and the Nazis so I got to learn new things in Anne Frank. I do think that both of these movies are great and I would recommend them to people my age or older.
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