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A 3 page discussion of the feeling and intellect which characterized Frederick Douglass and which allowed him to prove a formidable opponent to slavery of all kinds. The author asserts that Douglass was anything but an unfeeling dull being as the predominant view of the time regarded slaves. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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emotions and sentiments which were pent up inside Frederick Douglass led to his escape from slavery as well as his accomplishments as one of the most notable black writers and
speakers of all time. Interestingly, however, the predominant sentiment during times of slavery in the United States was that a slave was a being which was inferior to whites.
The contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position
was anything less than that of his white owners. We now recognize, of course, that nothing could be further from the truth. Frederick Douglass exemplifies again and again
that not only did slaves have feelings, they had the ability to be intellectually equivalent, if not superior, to those that they served.
An examination of the narratives of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (published by the Anti-Slavery office in 1845) and his subsequent works, My Bondage and
My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass supports the contention presented above. In these works it is apparent that the contention that the black slave was an
unfeeling animal-like being is untrue. Douglass narratives point to the biggest barrier to resistance to slavery as ignorance. Douglass sees ignorance as being as responsible as physical bondage
in shackling one as a slave. He emphasizes education as one of the primary forms of resistance to slavery. Although Douglass does show a transition in writing style,
the degree of feelings which he expresses, and the degree of awareness of education as the primary need in the resistance movement, it is apparent from his first works that
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