As William Lloyd Garrison, a famous abolitionist, said, “A black man can escape from the South, but he can never escape from slavery.” In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass discusses what exactly life as a slave was like in extreme detail, along with the dehumanization of not only the slave but the slave holder, and lastly what exactly freedom is to Douglass. Even though some slaves managed to escape from the south there is proof throughout the Life of Frederick Douglass that slavery never completely leaves the person. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.” The quote from the Narrative would hit home to many slaves, this is one of the many ways that slaves were dehumanized and treated more like cattle than human beings. In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass stated, “all of the white children could tell their ages.
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