In, "My Bondage and My Freedom-, Fredrick Douglas takes you back into his life long enough for you to gather the pieces of the puzzle that unveils the missing pieces of his future. He demonstrated that knowledge is not power in itself, but what you do with the knowledge is the power. Over a period of time, he found out that even when life continues forward sometimes you can still be imprisoned to the past without the knowledge of how to be free. "The time is but a speck, yet large enough to justify a pause for retrospection "and a pause it must only be."" (69) His quote brought such a power to the fact that even though, his life was hard and he caught himself staying in the past, when he realized that he already obtained a part of his future, it made the rode to freedom more accessible. Fredrick Douglass was constantly up-rooted in his childhood, which later in life engraved a slave mentality, but once the seeds of knowledge were planted, he was never the same. .
Douglass slave mentality had been branded in him all his life. When a mind and life have been the same way for so long, the idea of a new concept seems almost impossible. Being raised by his grandmother for approximately the first five years of his life gave Fredrick love and security. He never understood that his grandmother and the "old master- had an agreement that when he became of a certain age that he would be taken to the plantation. So, when he was introduced to the fact he was a slave it terrified him. Having security and love taken from you, must be hard on any child. However, deeper than that is why he had to be snatched away, because he was a slave. What was a slave to a five-year-old boy who could do as he pleased? He never really knew what it meant to be a slave. Although, he never had to welcome some of the brutal acts that he saw, he knew he was still a slave. Frederick Douglass had to battle with the emotions of slavery versus the reality of slavery.
For example, just when the book starts in the very first chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about his very first experience of seeing someone getting beaten. ... Another thing that shows how bad they treated them, is when in the second or third chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about how if the master caught anybody with tar on them they would beat them horribly for supposedly trying to steal fruit. ...
The first similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that both of them were religious. ... The second point is that both Maya Angelou and Fredrick cared about Church. ... The second similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that they were both perseverant. ... Fredrick's perseverance allowed him to rebel against Edward and to win a physical confrontation which stopped Edward from trying to beat Fredrick again. ... The first point is both Maya and Fredrick were abolitionists against slavery and Fredrick even became the leader of the abol...
Frederick Douglas has become a free man and that he is saying slavery was wrong to him. ... As the owner of Fredrick Douglas with his time at my plantation, I treated him fairly. ... Fredrick Douglas is the smartest person I have ever seen. ... I have high hopes and dreams for Fredrick, and I am happy he is a free slave. ... No, I did not let Fredrick Douglas escape. ...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
Fredrick Douglass was a man, which wanted more than to be a slave but a freeman,. ... Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving him an additional call, raised his musket to his face, and taking deadly aim at his victim, and then in a poor instant Demby was no more (Douglas 14) ". ... Covey was a poor man; he was commencing in life; he was only able to buy one salve; and, shocking as in the fact, he bought her, as he said for a breeder (Douglas 37)". ... The truth was that he didn't whip me at all (Douglas 43)". ... Fred Douglas took this theory of fi...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
It is this concept that I went on to examine in the piece Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas. ... In Frederick Douglas' narrative, it is unknown whether or not his birth was welcomed. ... Assuming this was true, Douglas was probably both an embarrassment and a property asset to his father. ... This power also became equally clear to Frederick Douglas. ... This was a defining moment in Douglas' career. ...
Average men, such as Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, and Walt Disney, put in some hard work and now are remembered as "self-made" men. ... Fredrick Douglas rose from the shackles of slavery to extraordinary success due to his virtue. Douglas did not give up when his master's wife, who had been teaching him the alphabet, was reprimanded for doing so by her husband. ... Douglas also did not give up when was traded to Edward Covey, a man who regularly beat him. ... When it comes to rags and riches, there are no rags worse than those that were given to slaves, but that did not st...
