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Title: Frederick Douglass: Major Themes


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Frederick DouglassMajor Themes
  • Ignorance as a Tool for Slavery
  • Knowledge as a Path to Freedom
  • Slaverys Irreversible Effect on Humanity
  • Slaveholding as a Perversion of Christian Tenets
  • The Treatment of Slaves as Property
  • The Victimization of Female Slaves

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Frederick Douglass Major Symbols
  • White-Sailed Ships
  • Sandys Root
  • The Columbian Orator

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Lets do some research on this
  • But the high soul burns on to light mens feet
  • Where death for noble end makes dying sweet.
  • James Russell Lowell
  • (Written for Col. Robert Shaw, Mass. 54th)
  • For discussion, how do you interpret this as it
    relates to Frederick Douglass journey?

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Mans Basic Nature?
  • Based on your reading of Frederick Douglass, you
    need to begin formulating an opinion/answer to
    this question
  • What is the basic nature of mankind?
  • Good? Evil? Neither?
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