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A 6 page essay that examines Douglass' autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, in regards to how violence against slaves affected both the lives of the slaves and their white masters. The writer also explores how violence was gendered in slavery and sexually related. No additional sources cited.
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cited. khfdsn3.wps Frederick Douglass/His Narrative & violence ? April, 2001 ? properly! Frederick Douglass autobiography
is a profound statement against the horrors of slavery and was highly influential in the abolitionist movement that eventually propelled the country into civil war. Part of the rationale offered
by those who defended slavery for both and after the American Civil War was that Southern slaves were not treated badly ? no worse then Northern factory workers, and that
their lives were considerably better then what they might have led in Africa. Douglass Narrative demonstrates that this rationalization of slavery is quite simply a lie. Not only was violence
rampant and life routinely made horrific for slaves, it was done so systematically and with a thoroughness that defies imagination. Violence within that "peculiar institution on which the Southern
United States had built its economy was confined to its physical manifestation. There was also psychological violence that included a systematic devaluing of Africans and people of African descent as
human beings. This evolved, quite logically, because the standpoint toward these people was that they were not human beings, but property. Douglass relates that he had no real knowledge of
his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to Douglass, this was quite typical. Human beings notice the passing of time, and
measure their lives in accordance to how many years they have traveled with the earth around the sun. Animals do not have this knowledge or realization; therefore, the white masters
were adamant about not recording, or allowing slaves to record, such pertinent human information as births. Everything in Douglass slave existence was designed with the specific intention of dehumanizing him.
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