By stripping slaves of their human qualities, slave owners dehumanized their slaves.

Being a human means to have emotions and to have control on how you feel and what you feel

about it. The ability to make decisions on our own is also an important trait humans have.

Frederick Douglass was a slave in the 1800's and achieved freedom to which he is able to

explain what slaves went through and how they were treated. Slaves were forced to work for

white men on plantations, and were given little or no food, clothes, and/or shelter to live in.

These slaves also never had the chance to learn to read, write, or anything to that degree.

Inside, humans possess the power to feel or to have emotions. Certain things in life strike

humans possess is to sense the feelings in others. In this book, The Narrative of The Life of

from our memories"( Douglass, 5). This quote shows the emotions that Frederick had for his own

read and write, he was unlike your typical salve who had no conrol over his/her life whatso ever.

Being a slave on a plantation was almost as if your life had no perpose. Frederick

whipped senseless by her master. The only feeling is fear that this woman may have. Animals are

sadness, anger, or any other feelings a human may have. Another quality

slaves had going for their life, they had no control over. Slaves only wanted one thing, profit, and

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