slavery caused slaves to be denied their god given rights. In the "Narrative of the Life of

Frederick Douglass," Douglass has the ability to show the psychological battle between

the white slave holders and their black slaves, which is shown by Douglass' own

intellectual struggles against his white slave holders. I will focus on how education

allowed Douglass to understand how slavery was wrong, and how the Americans saw the

blacks as not equal, and only suitable for slave work. I will also contrast how Douglass'

view was very similar to that of the women in America, and the role that Christianity

played in his life as a slave and then as a free man.

The novel clearly displays the children's animalistic behavior when they were not

regularly allowanced. Douglass says, "Our food was coarse corn meal boiled, which was

called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground.

The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come

and devour the mush; some with oyster-shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with

naked hands, and none with spoons. He that ate fastest got m

cry out, " ... O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute! ... Let me be Free! Is

a piece of property, a beast of burden, and a chattel person. Divine supports this thought

47). Education and literacy would allow a slave to see that there was another way of

speaks of this because the knowledge of freedom makes it more difficult to endure the

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