Frederick Douglas
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLAS: CHAPTER 9
Mikayla Mignogna
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"I was now, for the first time during a space of more than seven years, made to feel the painful gnawing of hunger- something which I had experienced before since I left Colonel Lloyd's plantation" (page 54)
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"A great many times have we poor creatures been nearly perishing with hunger, when food in abundance lay mouldering in the safe and smoke-house, and our pious mistress was aware of the fact and yet that mistress and her husband would kneel every morning, and pray that God would bless them in basket and store!" (page 55)
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". . . my master attended a Methodist camp-meeting. . . and experienced religion. I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves [or] make him more kind and humane. . . . [It did neither of these.] . . . I made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways. . ." (page 56)
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"I have seen him tie up a lame young women, and whip her with a heavy cowskin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed, he would quote a passage of Scripture."(page 57)
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Why do you think Douglas includes the names of the many people he comes across? For example, on page 56 he mentions those who frequently stopped by the house for the preacher.
How do you think some of the slaveholders could be so religious yet treat their slaves so unjustly?
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Knowing Thomas (slaveholder) was once a poor man himself, why do you think he had no empathy for his starving slaves?
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Why do you think Douglas's master came back from the Methodist camp-meeting even crueler than he was before?
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Do you think it would be more beneficial for slaveholders to treat their slaves with cruelty or respect? On page 58, it mentions how a slaveholder's harsh reputation enables him to get his farm tilled with must less expense than if he did not have the reputation.
Of corse I believe that they should be treated with respect. They should have been strict but with respect
