Fredrick Douglass - American Slave

In the old old age when it was legal to own slaves, umteen of them were in legal residences that had a subordinate and a mistress who frequently times also had children. both(prenominal)times e very(prenominal) unrivaled in the household was stand for to the slave, but in exalted times some showed compassion. Fredrick Douglass showed in his story, From Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an Ameri stub Slave, a true posting on compassion is told. through bring down out though Douglass shows adept how some could be variety showd by the rigour of slavery. In instantlys society condition hungry people are everywhere and often times when integrity has power they will transmute everything they consider in just to maintain the power. This power can corrupt anyone at any time just as it could in the past. One study example of this in todays society would be the parent to child relationship.\nDouglass was natural(p) in 1817 and lived until 1895. He was born into slavery in doctor where he would grow up to do great things. At the time he did not know or believe that. He was separated from alone of his family at a very four-year-old age. Through his decision Douglass did die a turn man, who had become quite in(predicate) in what he did. Douglass unfeignedly earned his freedom and became one of the most influential abolitionists in the country. He wrote legion(predicate) books and stimulate lives all around. \nAt his young age in the home where he was a wrapped slave, his mistress Mrs. Hugh Auld, began to teach him how to fill and write. She began by teach him his A, B, C. after(prenominal) not too persistent when her husband found out he forcefully convert her that teaching slaves was a foul idea and would only bring trouble. None of that stopped Douglass though, he later became friends with all the neighborhood white children and would take them booty in exchange for a lesson in reading and writing. not after long Douglass be gan to greatly read and write. From there he would grow up to change the world in many ways. \nMany believe it was the power that corrupted Mrs....