The Narative Life of Frederick Douglas

             The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
             Access to education is a fundamental right. It is what contributes to our ability to
             sustain communities, cities, and countries. During the pre-civil war period, the right to an
             education was restricted to only white people. This meant white society could enjoy and
             reap the benefit of an education while others like Frederick Douglass were forced to
             endure a life of slavery. It was not only culturally acceptable for blacks to be forced into
             hard back-breaking work, but this was all they knew growing up; in a life of slavery. The
             life of bondage into which Douglass was born taught nothing to him other than of
             slavery's brutality and ruthlessness towards human beings. Uneducated, he remained
             After Frederick was born, he worked for Captain Aaron Anthony. A cruel
             man who worked his slaves on the plantation hard and treated them like animals. A good
             example of this was the fact that, along with the de-humanizing conditions slaves faced,
             they were also forced to eat their cornmeal mush from a trough. Animals and slaves were
             treated in similar ways. In the mindset shared by the majority of white people it was
             culturally acceptable to own, beat, starve, and deprive a black slave of their individuality.
            
            
            
            
             Frederick Douglass was a young slave when he was sold to his new captors.
             Traveling to Baltimore, Maryland to work for Hugh Auld, Douglass, in his new home,
             made the first leap towards a re...

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