Important_Aspects_Of_Slavery

Important Aspects Of Slavery What would it be like to be a slave today' One can only imagine. The closest one could get would probably have to be in a prison that still has the chain gang. It would have to be a place where you are told what to do all the time and basically treated like you were nothing but property that makes your owner money. There are only a few aspects of slavery that claim high importance. The ones described in this passage are heavily descriptive and unbelievably understandable. Frederick Douglass makes the stories of slavery come to life with his specific detail. He tells how it was to be a slave at that time, along with what it was like to be a free colored man. Douglass brings out the animality of slavery by showing how slaves treated when they did something wrong. Your hands were in some way contained while you were whipped or beaten until you nearly bled to death. To show this Douglass brings up the description of an overseer that worked for his first master. Douglass states: “He always went armed with a cowskin slaves, douglass, slavery, one, today, states, master, floor, treated, told, time, slave, side, probably, passage, ones, makes, lot, few, descriptive, cold, brings, better, because, beatings, aspects, old, young, wrong, worthy, worked, work, women’s, woe, whom