Slavery Response

Pleading a justified can be proved to be difficult especially when a person knows that deep down there right. There are those who fight for what is already theirs. For an illustration, property is not always the most valuable of assets. Sometimes, thought, words, and even emotions are equivalent to any priceless entity. However, just like any material can be stolen, so can the ones that are not even seen but rather felt. In the African American community, words and thoughts that were voiced by that slavery held bondage are in a way stolen as if they were literally a substance. Slave history consisted on selective information released by slave holders. The nature of cruel intent is seen through the fact that these slaves have been bushed to the very bottom and yet it is not enough. Though their bodies have already surrendered to Caucasians, their mental capacity to reason has also been stripped away.

“He took her into the kitchen, and stripped from neck to waist, leaving her neck shoulders, and back entirely naked.” Throughout the text, women serve as imagery to the abuse which they endured. As Douglas states “I hid myself in a closet. As Douglass watches, he uses this sense of imagery demonstrates that slavery for both Douglas and Jacob is not only a physical control but also a mental control. As Douglas and Jacob write, they witness the cruelty humanity is capable of, one can visualize the face of a horror stricken child who can do nothing but watch. It is made clear that slavery is sustained not through natural superiority of whites, but through natural concrete and contrived strategies of gaining and holding power over blacks.

To despise and have a hate that runs so deep that it has the capacity to engulf and cause others to suffer is beyond true human intent. Fragile minds have no way to wrap their minds around this concept. Yet, there are those who do. It is rather impulsive that those who have to wrap their minds around this concept are relatively children. Such is the life of those slavery holds captive.