The slave
... him self to read and write. Brown shocked most of his readers with powerful statements such as “ slavery is what made African American lying and mean.” As being one of his readers one can come to the conclusion that is false, because it up to each individual to make the decision to change their situation. Frederick Douglass born a slave like Brown in the early 1800's in which he also had to face them evil days. Douglass was born in the black country of Maryland’s Eastern shore, also Rouse 2 born the son of Harriet Bailey, a slave, an a unknown white man. Throughout his adult life, Douglass tried futilely to obtain his reliable information about the date of his birth, but he was not able to. So because of that he cites in his narrative the resentment ha felt over not knowing his birthday as early evidence of “a restless spirt” within that would goad him into increasing defiance of the institution into in which he has been born. Douglass lived his life the best way that he knew how to in which was to follow and carry out his master order. During Douglass life time, mainly his younger years as a boy, he had came into many different encounters as a slave to prove that this truly was a dehumanization time period. For instance In chapter IV in the narrative of the Frederick Douglass he is sitting their while his slave Ms. Auld wife is try to teach him how to read then suddenly Mr. Auld comes in telling her, among other things that it was unlawful, as well as un safe, to teach a slave how to read. To use his own words further, “ if you give a nigger a inch he well take a ell. A nigger should not nothing but to obey his master-to do as he is told. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now,” he said” if you tech that nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master, and so on. After reading the narratives of both Brown and Douglass one can easily point out the little different between the two writing and personalities. For instance Brown’s major themes were historical perspectives, personal issues, and experiences as an aide to slavery traders, the sexual exploitation of both female slaves and wives of slaves owners, and the historical role that Christianity served both as advocate of slavery, and a source of escapism. Also the original audience was an important influence on Brown’s work. This audience was comprised of the white Roue 3 middle class and the black “talented-tenth”, with confl...