Frederick Douglass portrays the black and white women in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass at two opposite extremes in his innovative way of using the literary device of contrast to make his views clear and distinct to his readers. On one hand, there were the black female slaves who were beaten more severely, and more frequently than the male slaves. And on the other hand, there were the white female slave owners who seemed to execute the most malicious of the beatings. I trust he did this to further represent the misinterpretation of the role and the position of women in the system of slavery.

Douglass continuously displayed black women in his narrative a

Douglass depicts the white women in his narrative as being the most cruel and inhumane monsters in society. The way in which he describes their brutality as being due to the "fatal poison of irresponsible power"(p.274) is best said in the section when he discussed Mrs. Lucretia Auld's future transition from an angel to a demon. Examples of their inhumanity would be the stories of how it was Mrs. Hamilton who was responsible for all of the beatings to Henrietta and Mary. Also it was Mrs. Hick who murdered the cousin, and to further enrage the readers he mentioned that even though it was a horrid crime, it wasn't "enough to bring the murderess to punishment."(p270) Portraying the white women in this way contradicted how they were thought

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