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Slave owners lead their slaves to associate the liberation they feel while intoxicated, followed by the insufferable illness the next day, with what freedom feels like. This is a inhumane trick masters use to diminish the greatest dream every slave has to be free.

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Slaves are so deprived of any sort of rights that the only way they can express their sadness is through singing. There is great irony in that their means of expressing such desperation is through singing, which is known as a joyous activity.

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As property, slaves are stripped of anything they could hope to have for themselves, including a future. Slave owners enforce this fact by ensuring their slaves that nothing will come from dreaming of "unattainable" wishes.

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Douglas offers this shocking antithesis of a women, whom he claims once had providential qualities, that turns cold after being given the position of master to a slave. Even though slave owners are in power, holding another person as property afflicts their own nature.

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After being put to unbearable work for months by Edward Covey, an infamous slave breaker, Douglas's will to persist is finally destroyed. He gives up on his own aspirations. The torturous and demeaning labors of slavery drove a man into a spirit-less body, one he compares to an animal. The personification and antithesis Douglas utilizes throughout his description of his state emphasizes how much slavery dehumanizes slaves. He compares the once lively qualities he exhibited to the destruction his situation has done to them.

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After inquiring if he, Douglas, could hire his own time, Master Thomas, "Told me if I would be happy, I must lay out no plans for the future" (Douglas 101).

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"Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation" (Douglas 77)

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"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" (Douglas 66)

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Douglas's Mistress Auld had never before been a slave owner. When Douglas comes into her possesion, she warmly takes him in as her own; however, "Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness" (Douglas 40).

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"They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension ; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitter anguish," (Douglas 14).

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Although slave owners were in control over their slaves, the immensity of slavery's atrocities deeply afflicted the mentality of both roles in the enslavement system.