When I was about seven years old I witnessed, for the first time, the sale of a human being.
Slave children don't get a real childhood at young ages they're exposed to adult situations
13 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2017
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docsouth.unc.edu docsouth.unc.edu
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My old mistress said to her: "Stop your nonsense; there is no necessity for you putting on airs.
The mistress even tries to control the slaves emotions downplaying her sorrow. Showing a clear disconnect with her slaves as people.
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They were not so much responsible for the curse under which I was born, as the God of nature and the fathers who framed the Constitution for the United States.
A strong statement about the strong link between slavery and the founding of this nation
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docsouth.unc.edu docsouth.unc.edu
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There were many conjectures as to the cause of this terrible punishment. Some said master accused him of stealing corn; others said the slave had quarrelled with his wife, in presence of the overseer, and had accused his master of being the father of her child
Even when looking behind the reasoning for the punishment it is clear to see that the slightest infraction in behavior results in a sudden and harsh reprimand
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and then spit in all the kettles and pans that had been used for cooking. She did this to prevent the cook and her children from eking out their meagre fare with the remains of the gravy and other scrapings. The slaves could get nothing to eat except what she chose to give them
Mrs. Flint is power hungry it's clear she craves control
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- Oct 2017
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docsouth.unc.edu docsouth.unc.edu
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Children from seven to ten years old, of both sexes, almost naked, might be seen at all seasons of the year.
Such a gross disparity in wealth. Even though the owners have plenty of money they will cut back on anything available in hopes of making an extra dollar.
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I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.
He compares slavery to a den of hungry lines implying that the very structure of slavery was based off constant fear for ones life
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I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard Page 101 of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery
Frederick Douglass showers a good example of brotherhood with this statement showing how slaves lean and support each other even if they don't know each other
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- Sep 2017
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ualearn.blackboard.com ualearn.blackboard.com
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Q2: I feel like Truth's tone and literacy help add to the realness of what she is saying. She doesn't dress her argument up to something grand and confusing instead she uses simple anecdotes and logic to help support her argument and I think on a pathos level it helps her argument. However her lack of complex speech might hurt her argument intellectually.
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digitalcommons.unl.edu digitalcommons.unl.edu
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However much you and all of us may desire it, there is not much hope of redemption without the shedding of blood. If you must bleed, let it all come at once—rather die freemen, than live to be the slaves.
A strong declaration by the author trying to incite his followers to take any means necessary for their freedom.
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. Inform them that all you desire is freedom, and that nothing else will suffice
This kind of reminds me of how early white colonists felt during the revolutionary war repeating the cycle of oppression and revolution
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The nations of the old world are moving in the great cause of uni-versal freedom, and some of them at least will, ere long, do you jus-tice
This excerpt shows how the progressive nature of the world was influencing america's view on slavery.
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- Aug 2017
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.netcontent1
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aHavetoeveryvicesuitedtomynatureandtomyyears.
I think it's interesting that he would allude to slavery and show how he felt chained to the life of chasing vices
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