...Fredrick Douglass was a man that changed the way many viewed and saw slavery in the 19th century. Frederick Douglass, who is seen in source A, was born in February 1817 although his exact date of birth remains unknown. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland to his mother, Harriet Bailey was already a slave when she gave birth to Fredrick Douglass, making him be born into slavery. He was separated from her at the early age of 7 years old. As a slave, Douglass was not allowed to have much of a as he became a slave so young. He was separated from his parents, and forced to work hard and suffered harsh treatment while working for Captain Aaron Anthony. Although he was then shipped off to work for a man named Hugh Auld and his family. Mrs. Auld was a northerner, and in that time slaveholders were generally known to not treat their slaves badly unlike the South. This lead her to give Douglass somewhat of an education as she taught her the basics of reading and writing, until her husband stopped her....
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...very oppressions that hold it down. Fredrick Douglass and Malcolm X both shared the unfortunate common bond of oppression and enslavement and both found salvation and liberation through reading. Though the commonality of liberation was shared, the stories by which their journeys were told couldn’t have differed more. Through the essays of “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X and “Learning to Read and Write” by Fredrick Douglass, we see how their rhetorical techniques differ. After observing both essays we will come to understand why it is that due to his strong, convincing tone Malcolm X conveys a better story and catches our attention with his rhetoric better than Douglass. To fully understand how liberation is achieved and how enslavement of the mind can be completely abolished, we must join both Douglass and X in learning how read. Fredrick Douglass was born a slave and was never given the luxury of education until his master instructed his wife to teach Douglass to read. Taking advantage of being in the situation he was placed in, Douglass did whatever he could to further his knowledge of reading on his own. Douglass tells that when he was sent on errands he took his book along as well as bead from his master’s house and used it to barter with little white children in exchange for reading lessons. “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.” Said Douglass. The...
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...Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by himself. New York: Blight, 2003. Frederick Douglass was known as the most important African American leader and intellectual in the 19th century. He became a major figure in the crusade for abolition, the drama of emancipation and the effort to give meaning to black freedom during reconstruction. He tells stories about the 20 years of living the life as slave to his amazing and courageous escape. Douglass portrayed the core meaning of slavery, for both individuals and of the nation in his narrative. His multiple meanings of freedom as an idea and reality of mind and body and of the consequences of its denial were his themes in the book. The narrative also uncovers Douglass’s symbolic strategies in moral and economic slavery, the master-slave relationship, the psychology of slaveholder, the aims and arguments of abolitionists and the impending political crisis between North and South. He believed in equal rights as throughout his narrative dreamed of being free and wondered why slaves where treated the way they were. Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Tuckahoe, Maryland. He never new his exact age as there was never any record of his birth. Not knowing this information made him realize early on that there was a difference and unfairness in equality as he commented on he never met a slave in his life who could tell when their birthday was or how old they were. He continued saying...
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...Labor Struggle At the middle of the 20th century, factory owners were faced with a dilemma. Due to industrialization, they could now produce output far greater than they could ever imagine, but the demand for these goods only continued to rise. What could they possible do to produce more and keep this output up? Simple! Hire more than enough people to work in the factories. More people means more production which means more profit. Then another problem aroused. Even though I’m producing much more, im not seeing the incrase of profit I expected because im paying it out to the employees. What should I do? Simple! Cut their wages! Good, now we are finally starting to see some decent cash flow. At the turning point of the 19th century, we began to see a major clash between two factions, the corporations running the factories, and the workers who toiled there day in and day out. But why the conflict? One problem that lead to this clash was the conditions that these workers had to deal with everyday. Most of the workers were young woman or children, and the work they performed was grueling and sometimes dangerous. When Charles Dickens visited the town of Lowell in 1871, he described it as a very beautiful industrial town, with shops and churches that appeared to have been just constructed the day before his arrival and no worse than what he saw over sea’s. He was noted to say, “I saw a baby of some weeks or ten days old at a street corner, I found myself unconsciously asking where...
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