How Does Frederick's View Of Slavery
Frederick believes slavery could change anybody's opinion. Frederick Douglass moves to Baltimore and gets a new slave owner named, Mrs. Auld.Frederick thinks that Mrs. Auld was nice. When Frederick meets her, he is immediately put at ease. Mrs. Auld was teaching Frederick to read. Then she taught Frederick to spell words, never believing anything would go wrong. Mrs.Auld’s heart soon changed making her powerful. Mrs. Auld has the power of owning a slave. “Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.” Upon hearing this, Mrs.Auld immediately stopped teaching Fred to read. She didn’t stop there. This
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Slavery corrupts slave holders because they would viciously whip the slaves. In Paragraph 3, it shows how Mr. Covey acted toward the slaves. The slaves would call Mr.Covey, the “Snake” “When we were at work in the cornfield, he would sometimes crawl on his hands and knees to avoid detection, and all at once he would rise nearly in our midst, and scream out, “Ha, ha! Come, come! Dash on, dash on!” This being his mode of attack, it was never safe to stop a single minute. His comings were like a thief in the night...” This quote shows that Mr. Covey almost forced them to keep working endlessly. If the slaves stopped working, he would whip them.“He would spend the most of his afternoons in bed. He would then come out fresh in the evening, ready to urge us on with his words, example, and frequently with the whip. Mr. Covey was one of the few slaveholders who could and did work with his hands. He was a hard-working man. He knew by himself just what a man or a boy could do. There was no deceiving him. His work went on in his absence almost as well as in his presence; and he had the faculty of making us feel that he was ever present with us...” This quote shows how he made a slave was made a man. Mr. Covey was a hard working man. This shows how Covey is taking power over the slaves by whipping them. This shows how slavery corrupts slave holders, like how it corrupts
Slavery corrupts slave holders because they would viciously whip the slaves. In Paragraph 3, it shows how Mr. Covey acted toward the slaves. The slaves would call Mr.Covey, the “Snake” “When we were at work in the cornfield, he would sometimes crawl on his hands and knees to avoid detection, and all at once he would rise nearly in our midst, and scream out, “Ha, ha! Come, come! Dash on, dash on!” This being his mode of attack, it was never safe to stop a single minute. His comings were like a thief in the night...” This quote shows that Mr. Covey almost forced them to keep working endlessly. If the slaves stopped working, he would whip them.“He would spend the most of his afternoons in bed. He would then come out fresh in the evening, ready to urge us on with his words, example, and frequently with the whip. Mr. Covey was one of the few slaveholders who could and did work with his hands. He was a hard-working man. He knew by himself just what a man or a boy could do. There was no deceiving him. His work went on in his absence almost as well as in his presence; and he had the faculty of making us feel that he was ever present with us...” This quote shows how he made a slave was made a man. Mr. Covey was a hard working man. This shows how Covey is taking power over the slaves by whipping them. This shows how slavery corrupts slave holders, like how it corrupts