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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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?