NARRITIVE OF THE LIFE OF FEDRICK DOUGLASS AN AMREICAN SLAVE

I am choosing to do my quotation from the working conditions when Fredrick was under the care of Mr. Covey to really describe the way that these men were really worked and how poorly they were treated. "If at one time in my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey. We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow, too hard for us to work in the field. Work, work, work, was scarcely more the order to the day than of the night. The longest days were to short for him." From this passage in the book you can really see how they were treated, they weren't treated as men but they were treated like just another piece of property, which he expected to work as long and as hard as he did (Mr. Covey). they would also work the men until they were broke which mean that they lost there will to really live and they are just another brute which is what the slave owners wanted because they wouldn't want to be free anymore. But in this section of the book he dose get his humanity back when one day he collapsed and from the heat and when Mr. Covey told him to get up he tried but could not Mr. Covey then precedes to beat Fredrick and then leaves him to die. but Fredrick somehow get the idea that he can't live like this anymore and runs off in the woods to go talk to his owner Master Thomas. And when he reached him he did not get the result that he wanted. But threw this he found a new fire inside of him to really get out of the bonds of slavery and gave him the courage to fight back. These tails of injustice can be found all over the book like for instance when under the care of the Captain, on of the overseers shot and killed a man just because he wouldn't get out of the water. Or the time when his aunt was whipped non stop just because she did not love the slave owner that loved her so dear. and hopefully through this you can see the ways that the American slave was treated and how unjust it really was.