The Narrative of Frederick Douglass: What is Family To a Slave
How did slavery effect the concept of family? Hit play to find out.
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his father he tells a story at one point about
his grandmother who watched all of her children sold away [Grandmother watching children]
from her one by one by one and was never
able to do anything about it Frederick douglass is very
conscious of the fact that even after he becomes a
free man there will always be a huge void in
his life He'll never really have a family He couldn't [Frederick's free life checklist]
get married as a slave slaves often they were married
they chose partners and they obviously had children but they
weren't legally married Yeah so he can only become legally [Slaves marrying with Elvis]
married after he's free He can only really have children
once he is free and has the stability and the
security to provide for them And so in this autobiography
his family his marriage aren't really mentioned that much probably [Frederick standing below rain cloud]
because his freedom was still so recent that he was
still grappling with it He still didn't totally feel as
though he had a family and his life or knew
how to talk about it How does slavery affect the [Questions appear]
concept of family Why did douglas right so little about