Frederick Douglass Dehumanization Examples
The institution of slavery not only brutalized its victims but also dehumanized the practitioners of it. The Classic slave Narratives provides numerous examples of this many of which being within the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, and The History of Mary Prince.
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass are filled with these examples of brutalization of both slave and master. During Douglass’s stay at Baltimore with the Auld’s he saw firsthand the dehumanizing effects of slavery on his mistress. Douglass himself describes his mistress as, “a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself” (363). Douglass continues to describe how kind and nice she was unlike like his
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass are filled with these examples of brutalization of both slave and master. During Douglass’s stay at Baltimore with the Auld’s he saw firsthand the dehumanizing effects of slavery on his mistress. Douglass himself describes his mistress as, “a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings. She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself” (363). Douglass continues to describe how kind and nice she was unlike like his