How The Life Of Frederick Douglass Compared To Today

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is his journey of being a slave to when he has fought hard to become free. Douglass was born a slave on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. I am going to show events of when Douglass was a slave on the plantation and when slavery was over and was free to now in the present day. I believe many of the activities that transpired during Frederick Douglass’s day is still continuing to happen today in one form or another I will prove by examples of the differences and similarities from 1800s compared to now in 2017 such as education, suffering, and
In the narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass back then when he was a slave the masters tried to prevent the slaves from getting and education. Frederick Douglass
Unfortunately when Douglass wanted to try and gain knowledge it was a battle because he had to be secretive about it. So when Douglass was a slave it was nearly impossible to get a good education until he met Sophia Auld. But now in the present day majority of us has access to education because of the internet, the library, and schooling we can learn a lot. Now there are no rules in our country that is forbidding someone from learning or teaching someone to read or write. I won’t receive a whip or a lash for learning how to read and write now those days are the past and will never return again. Slavery has been abolished and now in the present we are allowed to gain as much knowledge as we want and use that knowledge however we want to use
Before that commenced he went through a lot of suffering and witnessed a lot of suffering, from reading the narrative Douglass made it clear how bad slavery was for the African Americans. One of the worst parts of being an African American slave was suffering. At the beginning of the narrative the book starts as Douglass as a young boy it seemed like Douglass didn’t understand what slavery was. In the narrative there are so many examples of suffering when being a slave such as; he witnessed his Aunt Hester being whipped by Mr. Plummer. Slaves were beaten if they stole food or even make a comment against the owners, sometimes slaves can be murdered without punishment because slaves lives was not seen to have a lot of value. Frederick Douglass was sad every time he saw slaves singing the great house farm According to the narrative “those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery.” Douglass was separated from his mother when he was born. She had to walk a long distance just to see Douglass which happened mainly at