Frederick Douglass Essay by Nell Jakubowski _ Student - DavisDriveMS https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz Essay Outline en-us 2019-02-25 13:09:33 UTC 2019-03-01 03:28:18 UTC hello@padlet.com How does Frederick Douglass use his story to support his position to end slavery? najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334822931 Along with the use of imagery and other descriptive figurative language,  Douglass uses his personal experiences  to reveal the effects of slavery on slaves and slaveowners, which supports his position to end slavery.]]> 2019-02-25 13:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334822931 Introduction najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334824487 Hook: Imagine being enslaved on a plantation, being forced to wake up bright and early only to do hard, physical work. Frederick Douglass is one of those many, many enslaved people, but he decided to do something about his and many others situation.
Background information: Frederick Douglass is a runaway slave, and abolitionist who in 1845 wrote the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass". The reason for writing that was to show white men in his time how terrible slavery is; furthermore his goal is to end slavery because Douglass knows the terrible effects of slavery on slaves and slaveholders, so he is willing to fight to end it.
Thesis statement: Along with the use of imagery and other descriptive figurative language,  Douglass uses his personal experiences  to reveal the effects of slavery on slaves and slaveowners, which supports his position to end slavery.]]> 2019-02-25 13:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334824487 Conclusion najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334824924 Topic sentence: To conclude Frederick Douglass wrote this narrative using all these tactics to persuade white men of how terrible slavery was. Using the figurative language, Douglass uses really helped the men understand how terrible these slaves were treated.]]> 2019-02-25 13:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334824924 Body paragraph 3 (slavery corrupts slave holders) najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334825180 Topic sentence: Lastly, Douglass shows how slavery corrupts slave holders to support his position to end slavery.
Quote 5: "That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery , soon became cruel ya red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon" (excerpt 3 paragraph 3)
Quote 6: "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 the tiger-like fierceness." (excerpt 3, paragraph 6)]]> 2019-02-25 13:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334825180 Body paragraph 2 (slavery is terrible for slaves) najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334825717 Topic sentence:  Douglass also uses the argument that slavery is terrible for slaves to support his position to end slavery.
Quote 3: "I have seen him whip a women, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release" (excerpt 2 paragraph 4)
Quote 4: "'My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant-before I knew her as my mother.It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.'" (excerpt 1, paragraph 3)
]]> 2019-02-25 13:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/334825717 Body paragraph 1 (figurative language) najakubowski https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/335334927 Topic sentence: Frederick Douglass uses figurative language to support his position to end slavery.
Quote 1: "On the one hand, there stood slavery, a stern reality, glaring frightfully upon us,-its robes already crimsoned with the blood of millions, and even now feasting itself greedily upon our own flesh." (excerpt 5, paragraph 1)
Quote 2: "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." (excerpt 4 paragraph 4)]]> 2019-02-26 13:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/najakubowski/8jfiw5pg1myz/wish/335334927