The way Frederick Douglas talks about his life at a younger
age being a slave in Narrative of The
Life of Frederick Douglas is somewhat surprising. Not essentially because
of what he explains his life was, and how horrifying times where in those
years. But the way he talks about it, the way he describes it. Obviously everything
he wrote about his past life is surprising and is extremely disturbing, even
traumatizing. But what mainly caught my attention was how he wrote it with such
normality, as if it weren’t that of a big deal. But I guess that if I come to
think of it, those times weren’t as shockingly horrific for someone like
Douglas, since that was what was expected from people; white owners treating black
slaves like crap. Though what actually gets me is how atrocious those times
where, enough to get a little slave boy thinking of such terrible acts as
something being part of the natural. In other words, it must have been undeniably
traumatizing, for that Douglass doesn’t put much importance to acts like this
that for us, are of the greatest importance.
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