https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists Frederick Douglass excerpt en-us 2017-10-17 11:00:10 UTC 2025-09-27 10:59:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png asharma19 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720173 In his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Douglass asserts that slavery has severely debilitating mental and physical consequences for those subjected to it. 
This argument is developed through a dramatic transition from  monotonous language describing the day to day tortures of working as a slave to shorter, more emotionally charged sentences in an apostrophe that emphasizes his spiteful madness.
His purpose is to convey his personal experiences with the horrors of slavery in order to persuade free Americans to become more sympathetic to the abolitionist cause.
Douglass establishes a tone of frustrated desperation with his audience of slave owners who understand the principles of equality and the hypocrisy of slave owning.]]> 2017-10-17 11:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720173 srivera19 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720547 In the autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) Frederick Douglass suggests that he can no longer withstand the struggles of slavery, and that no man should be subjected to such cruelties. Douglass supports his thesis through anecdotes about his gruesome experience with slavery, using the ship as a symbol of God, and providing a plan of escape. The purpose of this excerpt is to have the reader be informed on and sympathize with slaves in order to increase the reader's objection towards slavery. His use of personal experience and education draws in a Caucasian audience that owns little to no slaves and has no opinion on whether slavery is right or wrong.]]> 2017-10-17 11:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720547 ascott191 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720555 An American slave, Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) expresses that the struggles slaves endured are unbearably brutal. Douglas supports this conclusion through disclosing hopes and struggles of a slave from beginning to end. The authors purpose is to help the audience understand the life of a slave in order to liberate more people. He establishes an empathetic tone to his educated audience by using active voice and referring to himself.]]> 2017-10-17 11:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720555 jturner191 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720582 Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), asserts that slavery creates unimaginable pain and hardships. Douglass supports his claim by beginning with describing his life and how he feels and moving into apostrophe, actually speaking to the ships, as if they were alive, "they move merrily before the gentle gale, and he, sadly before the bloody whip." His purpose is to portray the life of a slave to his readers in order to persuade them to realize the tyranny involved in slavery. He establishes a raw and emotional tone at first, turning almost to a prayer, as he 'speaks' to his audience of American abolitionists.]]> 2017-10-17 11:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720582 tdamico19 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720607 In the autobiography Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) suggests that he wanted to build a case for his freedom from white people and slave owners by expressing the hardships he endured. He does this through citing powerful memories such as summer days on the "lofty banks" of the Chesapeake Bay, how he would have to watch the ships glide away while he himself was pinned down to his master's land. His purpose is to help create sympathy among readers in order to arouse antislavery. Douglass intended that his audience would be the American people, including slave owners as well as abolitionists to further the cause of freeing slaves.]]> 2017-10-17 11:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720607 mcarney19 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720751 Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography,  Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) claims that slaves, including himself, are mistreated and forced into ¨wretched conditions.¨ Douglass supports this conclusion through the structure of his autobiography where he includes an apostrophe indicating that he is talking to the ships that symbolize freedom and uses it to show the yearning for freedom and equality among slaves. His purpose in this work is to spark the arousal of anti-slavery movements and create sympathy among slave owners in order to help them understand the inequity and hardships the colonial slaves endured. He establishes a shift in tone from morbid to hopeful with his audience of slaves and abolitionists, by routinely explaining the daily requirements of slaves and their desire for action against it. ]]> 2017-10-17 11:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197720751 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197721835 Sentence 1: Frederick Douglass, in his 1845 autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, suggests that slaves are treated as less than human and that slavery is the worst torture imaginable.

]]> 2017-10-17 11:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197721835 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197723843 Sentence 2:
Douglass delves into the life of slavery beginning with short, monotonous sentences describing his childhood-- arguably the most formative period of our lives-- and describes the mental and physical discouragement that eventually forms itself in his mind as he is broken, moving from there to his aims and discussion of the future,  dreaming of escape, living a real human life; then shattering the beauty of it in heartbreaking reality.]]> 2017-10-17 11:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197723843 jalexander191 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197723955 Sentence 4: Douglass establishes a dark tone that transforms into feverish monologue for his audience of abolitionists.]]> 2017-10-17 11:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197723955 https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197724116 Sentence 3: Douglass' purpose is to portray the agonizing existence of slaves in order to create empathy within slave owners and those who support the institution of slavery.]]> 2017-10-17 11:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/karen_savella/precisessayists/wish/197724116