The Historical Causes of Poverty in Latin America
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Figure 1: Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler
Introduction
In those days slavery was a great Challenge and colored people were in real trouble as they were arrested and made prisoners. Douglass argued against slavery in three of his books and many articles because he believed slavery was not natural. In this essay, I will discuss,” The Life Story Narrative” of Fredrick Douglass in relation to the image of forcing slavery down the throat a freesoiler.
slavery; in this image, there is a man strongly tied with ropes. This represents those who promoted slavery in American society. In his book the Narrative (1845), he wrote:
“The battle with Mr Convey was turning point in my career as slave.” The same way in this picture we see people coming together to eliminate slavery which had deep roots in the society. Douglass further says,” The gratification afforded by the triumph was a full compensation for whatever else might follow even death itself.”
Brutality: ” in this picture, there is a person who has been murdered in cold up a tree. Being a young boy, Fredrick Douglass did not fully comprehend the horror of slavery until he experienced an event when her aunt was treated cruelly by his master. This incident greatly affected Douglass: “it struck me with awful force.it was the bloodstained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which it was about to pass.”
Leadership: Douglass distinguished himself from his fellow slaves by being in the front line to fight slavery. He was a leader among the black Americas and also acted as their spokesperson though they had not elected him. He represented them in enslaved monumental time for the nation. In this image, their leader is in the front line of fighting slavery. As a leader, He initiated the formation of the abolitionist movement and started writing to the advocates of the slave trade and slavery information that counter-attacked them.
Selflessness; the virtual of selflessness is an identifiable characteristic of the few individuals who have taken immediate actions to fight oppression which the Black Americans faced. Douglass’ selflessness is seen in his books and speeches where he talked about issues that put his life in great danger but he did this for the sake of the oppressed people.
Natural law; he drew on the idea of natural rights and natural laws which would be become a tradition in fighting slavery. Int this picture these laws have been violated by murdering an individual in cold blood. Similarly in his life narrative, Douglass was whipped bye conveys subjects for six months, almost every week to make him a loyal slave. Douglass says, “I was broken in body, soul,and spirit.My natural elasticity was crashed ,my intellect languished ,the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died;the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into brute!”
Assimilation and Amalgamation: Douglas’ concept of providence, with its American subjects of individualism and ant-super naturalism and his perspective of natural law, influenced his position of universal human brotherhood. In the picture, there is no aspect of assimilation and amalgamation. Douglas argues that the thought of comprehensive human brotherhood was self-consistent with the application of the Republican ideas and Christianity virtuals. He put several considerable efforts arguing against claims that blacks were lesser beings this was in terms of intellectual abilities morally inferior and fit to be controlled as children.in favor of the black people, he argued that despite the existing conditions, the black Americans are humans and creations of the divine, and that were equally God’s children.
In conclusion the “Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass” majors on the hard knocks of his life, but finally he makes his way out of slavery. Despite many challenges and suffering such as being whipped by Mr covey’s subjects, he made the world a better place where the blacks were to be treated in the same way as the whites. religion in the first chapters has been used by Douglass but towards the end, he rarely uses it because he already understands how it relates to slavery.
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