Theme Of Slavery In The Negro Mother By Frederick Douglass

Difficulties of Slavery Slavery shows difficulties that the slaves went through in the American South. Slaves typically worked on a plantation farm and had daily pain that they went through.
Working on a plantation farm was one of the many struggles that the slaves went through. In the poem” The Negro Mother,” she had to bring corn and cotton to yield. Bringing corn and cotton to yield is a struggle because you have to work out on a field in the hot sun. Another struggle of working on a plantation farm is moving from plantation to plantation. In the text “Fredrick Douglass,” Douglass lived with his grandmother Betty Bailey. He worked for a plantation owner that was expected to be his father. It shows that he moved all the time because