Frederick Douglass and American Slavery

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Frederick Douglass and American Slavery

• 3/5s Compromise
• Missouri Compromise
• 1850 Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act

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Map of Slavery 1840
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American Slavery 1860
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Douglass Bio

• Born in 1818
• Mother was a slave father unknown
• Went to Baltimore around age 10 or 11
• Learned to read and write
• Escaped from slavery in 1838
• Began speaking again slavery in 1841
• Wrote the Narrative in 1845

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Slavery Terms

• Chattel Slavery
• Abolitionism
• Literacy
• Biblical Racism

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Douglass

• No Origin
• Slavery an assault on the family
• Physical violence of slavery
• Sentimental Appeal
• Affect as Literary Power
• Literary Power as answer to racism
• Literacy as Maturation

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Literacy and Violence

• You have seen how a man was made a slave you
  shall see how a slave was made a man.
• Literacy as answer to slaverys violence
• Tension between literate and physical agency

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Conclusions

• Democracy versus Equality
• Color Consciousness vs. Color Blindedness
• American vs. African-American Identity