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What is The Narrative of Frederick Douglass about? Spoiler alert: Frederick Douglass.
Why did Douglass write the book? Easy. Because TV wasn't a viable medium yet.
No birthday, no known father, and little contact with his mother— this isn’t the set-up to another spy-thriller, it’s the beginning of Freder...
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass: What is Family To a Slave 112 Views
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How did slavery effect the concept of family? Hit play to find out.
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- 00:00
Narrative of the life of frederick
- 00:07
douglass on american planes what is family to a slave
- 00:11
a'la Shmoop.... One of the major cruelties of slavery as an
- 00:16
institution is that it completely decimates family for slaves Frederick [Family crushed by fist]
- 00:22
douglass's mother lived on a faraway plantation he never knew
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- 00:28
his father he tells a story at one point about
- 00:32
his grandmother who watched all of her children sold away [Grandmother watching children]
- 00:35
from her one by one by one and was never
- 00:39
able to do anything about it Frederick douglass is very
- 00:42
conscious of the fact that even after he becomes a
- 00:45
free man there will always be a huge void in
- 00:48
his life He'll never really have a family He couldn't [Frederick's free life checklist]
- 00:53
get married as a slave slaves often they were married
- 00:59
they chose partners and they obviously had children but they
- 01:03
weren't legally married Yeah so he can only become legally [Slaves marrying with Elvis]
- 01:09
married after he's free He can only really have children
- 01:12
once he is free and has the stability and the
- 01:15
security to provide for them And so in this autobiography
- 01:20
his family his marriage aren't really mentioned that much probably [Frederick standing below rain cloud]
- 01:25
because his freedom was still so recent that he was
- 01:29
still grappling with it He still didn't totally feel as
- 01:32
though he had a family and his life or knew
- 01:36
how to talk about it How does slavery affect the [Questions appear]
- 01:40
concept of family Why did douglas right so little about
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