Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement. He was the first black citizen to hold a high U. S. government rank (Present in the

Past Doc 3). He was an abolitionist leader and one of the most famous individuals of his time.

Douglass advised presidents and lectured thousands on women’s rights and Irish home rule.

(Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass) He learned how to read and write by sitting in on his companions lessons in Baltimore, Maryland. Through reading, Douglass’ ideological opposition on slavery began. He avidly read newspapers and other political literature as much as possible. (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass). Before Douglass was a well known leader he lived as a slave on a Plantation

That was pretty much all he could do. If Henson’s father would’ve killed a white man it would 've been an immediate death sentence. Since Henson’s father “struck a white man” it brought the whole county into an uproar. Consequently, Henson’s father received “100 lashes on the bare back and to have his ear nailed to the whipping post, and then severed from the body.”(Present in the Past Doc 5) Another reason Henson’s father was not killed was because he was his property and fairly expensive at that. Henson’s father, because of his actions, was sent to

Alabama. This was considered one of the worst punishments aside from death. He was separated from his family, never to see them again. The way that Douglass and Henson described life on the plantation, to me, is similar to that of North Korea in their current state. There is one man in charge,in this case it would be Kim Jong Un, who can do whatever he wants with no consequence. The man is in charge because he has a lot of money, is a leader, and considers himself superior. If one of their “subjects” does something he doesn’t like he can just dispose of them with no repercussion. Juxtaposed to the people of North Korea, the slaves on