Frederick Douglas Argues Against Slavery and For Black Equal

            Douglas Argues Against Slavery and For Black Equality.
             Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a slave, back in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds? Have you thought about the hard times that slaves had to bear? In the nineteenth century, white men needed slaves to do work on their plantations. The white man didn't treat these slaves as human beings but rather as objects or property. An example of this is found in the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. This narrative tells the story about Frederick Douglass, through the eyes of himself as a slave, as he tries to free himself from slavery. During the period of Douglas being a slave, the slave owners would dehumanize the slaves and try to get total control. Through this process Douglass tries to show that slavery was wrong and blacks are equal to whites. This book was written to teach slaves and slave owners the importance of equality and what slavery is doing to people as a whole. The first part will deal with the ugliness slave owners show towards slaves and the dehumanizing process.
             Slave owners would treat slaves as property rather than a different human being. Slave owners would think of slaves as inferior, because slaves were treated as children and they thought slaves had to be handled in a certain way. Slave owners would take the slaves identity away, so, that the slaves were less of a human. One way of doing this to slaves is that they are never able to see or talk to their mothers after they are born. Douglass says, "Never enjoying, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of stranger" (p.2 Douglas). This shows the dehumanizing of slaves by the white man. The children were taken away from their mother and never able to feel the emotions of a regular family.