Backbreaking labor, thundering voices, and lashing whips: the life of a nineteenth century slave. Frederick Douglass spent much of his life wearing little more than the chains of slavery. The South denied him the basic civil rights afforded to whites, and he was not given clothing enough to cover his naked body. He was treated no better than property. He ground through nearly every day of his abject life as a slave in “crouching servility.” Despite his condition, Douglass did not spend his free time idly sulking about his enslavement; rather, he educated himself. He showed the courage of character to free his mind from the shackles that physically entrapped
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