Psychology Of Slavery

Slavery has affected millions of people worldwide from the early sixteenth century up until when the thirteenth amendment was ratified in the mid eighteenth century. Many ex-slaves would create narratives that would describe their experience in slavery and what he/she had went through while being held captive. It affected slaves immensely not only in physical changes but mentally. Ex-slaves describe the psychology of slavery by truthfully conveying their personal stories through slavery while includes their own hardships, courage, schemes, and hope dispute being legally owned, abused, and overall neglected by their masters. I believe the most effective way of persuading Northerners to become abolitionists is by using the constitution to show
She had not lived with her parents when under the provision of Dr. Flint so she was very much alone. Jacobs stated that the fifteenth year was “a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl.” Her master begun to whisper inappropriate words which only begun to elevated because of her fear to tell her grandmother. She had begun a relationship with a local white men and became pregnant. She told Dr. Flint and he immediately begun to threaten her own life saying statements such as “if you deceive me, you shall feel the fires of hell” He claimed that he would never allow her to see the father of her child, support from him, and to never be sold again. This really put a damper on Jacobs hopes because her scheme to get out of Dr. Flint’s power was to be bought by the father of her child. She allowed to keep a positive thought even throughout all of the abuse because of her daughter, the father of her daughter, and the overall thought of
He prompted much debate during his “What to a Slave is the 4th of July” speech that he held on July 5th, 1852. He talks about how Independence Day cannot be celebrated by white men in the same way of black men. He explains what the fourth of July is to slaves this in a statement of his speech “a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” Their rights are vastly different and promised are not fulfilled as said in the Declaration of Independence such as equality. He discusses that he believes that the Declaration is tarnished because of the existence of slavery and how they are treated. He claims the Constitution is pro-slavery because of the several word choices and differences of rights. “The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie.” He had gone through slavery itself and was able to use his love for abolitionism and freedom for all slaves to create a scheme that the whole nation would here. Douglass was fed up with how blacks were treated so much more differently than whites when there is no difference in them at all. He plants hope in the listeners and tries to educate them on what is right and what is wrong. The psychology of his past prompted him to write