d 16, was mangled. Her nose and breastbone were broken with a stick. Chapter ten details Frederick's own beating. "He ordered me to take off my clothes. I made him no answer, but stood with my clothes on. He repeated his order. I still made him no answer, nor did I strip myself. Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a tiger, tore off my clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so savagely as to leave the marks visible for a long time after. This whipping was the first of a number just like it....."The Narrative gives example after example of the hardship the slaves faced day in and day out. It speaks of the hopelessness each slave dealt with. It speaks of the social degradation and of the want for common equality. Frederick Douglass lead us to the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. He was "the underground railroad" that provided freedom for so many slaves. He provides us with historical details that no white man could have given us. Not only did he provide us with physical evidence of abuse, but he provided us with the emotional distress behind such physical pains. However, Douglass has given us an imaginative literary work. With the use of examples, song lyrics, poems, and speeches, Frederick produced "a deeply imagined story about the universal human quest for real, self- conscious freedom." (pg. viii) In chapter two, we are able to witness the lyrics of a slave song. A slave song that to many would seem meaningless, was actually "a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance." (pg. 47)I am going away to the Great House Farm!O, yea! O, yea! O!Within chapter eight, we are given, to read, a poem written by Whittier, a slave poet. I will present the first three lines.Gone, gone, sold and goneTo the rice swamp dank and lone,Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings.....Douglass also gives biblical reference throughout his bibliography. On page 107, in the a...
