https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8 en-us 2018-02-05 16:06:55 UTC 2026-02-07 10:38:04 UTC hello@padlet.com gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228189946 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.]]> 2018-02-05 16:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228189946 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228194651 "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).]]> 2018-02-05 16:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228194651 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228195616 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).]]> 2018-02-05 16:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228195616 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228203260 "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)]]> 2018-02-05 16:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228203260 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228204804 "Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation" (Douglas 77)]]> 2018-02-05 16:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/228204804 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229383768 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).]]> 2018-02-08 00:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229383768 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229386571 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.]]> 2018-02-08 01:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229386571 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229395334 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. ]]> 2018-02-08 01:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229395334 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229396319 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.]]> 2018-02-08 01:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229396319 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229397113 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.]]> 2018-02-08 02:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229397113 gmuhm71 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229397637 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.]]> 2018-02-08 02:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/229397637 https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/239996210 2018-03-09 02:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gmuhm71/5at3abcd3iy8/wish/239996210