This class, to me, is largely built on the characters we read and what it means to be human and to HAVE character. F. Douglass is different from any other thing we read so far because he writes about something more real and more sensitive than anything else so far. Reading about dehumanization of black people from that time and reading in detail the pains (literally AND figuritively) African Americans went through. Specifically, as a person of Jewish background, dehumanization of people really hits home to me, no matter if who is being dehumanized.
To not be considered human because of who you are or what you can't control, I think, is one of the greatest sins of humanity.
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I think you hit on a very important point. "Not to be considered human because of whom you are." I think Douglass imparts this message to his readers. He opens our eyes to the devastation and tragedy of denying rights and privileges to any group of people because of who they are or what they practice is.
i agreewiththe both of you, seeing how slavery takes away opinion and allowance for you to define yourself. slavery takes away any form of YOU and has other people define it for you, thereby taking away what is human from that person!
I agree that Douglass is different from what we have read, and I really enjoyed his narrative. I'm glad his determination paid off and he made his way to freedom. You are very right that one of the worst sins of humanity is to treat others as inhuman. If you can't control how you were born and what you look like, it shouldn't be used to take advantage of anyone. Beauty, and skin colour are only skin deep and after that, everyone's the same, everyone's human.
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