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The Comparison of the life of Frederick Douglas and the life of Harriet Jacobs throughout is enslavement; Frederick Douglass recollected specific events and tragedies. These events stuck with Douglass only enhancing his quest for freedom. After receiving his freedom as a young adult (supposedly for he didn't know his real age), Frederick Douglass went on to write this book where he tells us of these events, which fuelled his quest for freedom, the ultimate goal for every slave. In the beginning of the book we find out several things about Douglass, he was under the care of his first master, Mr. Plummer, as a child he witnessed the brutal whipping of his aunt. "He would whip to make her scream, and whip to make her hush"(18). Douglass promised himself that he would never forget the incident as long as he remembered anything. As a child, the constant beating of his aunt was the first of many heinous acts to which Douglass would be a witness too. Douglass saw that this was the fate of all if not every slave recognising it as the eventual outcome that would befall him he knew he had to escape by any means. Douglass also identifies the first realisation of the dehumanising effects of slavery upon his people with the songs, which the
Gore went "unwhipped of justice, and uncensored by [his] community"(33). "Reading these documents enabled [Frederick] to utter [his] thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery"(48). At the age of twelve Douglass got hold of The Colombian Orator, which offered a bold denunciation of slavery and education on human rights. It was thought that if slaves were educated, there would be no restraining them and they would realize that they don't have to be slave and revolt. "It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom"(73). For "two hours" they wrestled he says. The debasing nature of a slave's life was further stress when Douglass again witnessed a particular incident while under the care of Mr. "It was against the law to educate slaves. It was an unjust and undeserving fate to the slaves by which their master could govern all aspects of ones existence. Gore, without any provocation shot Demby in the head, "His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood. Covey ultimately marked a major turning point in his view of himself as a slave.
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