Jewel Norman-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Report

everyone. Money, jewels, Norman.

Um And today I will be sharing with you all

my Prezi video on the Narrative of the Life of

Frederick Douglass and American Slave, written and published by Frederick

Douglass. Before I get started, I just wouldn't give you

guys a quote that was said by him that I

really thought was awesome.

It says where justice is denied, where poverty is in

force, where ignorance prevails.

Where any one class is made to feel that society

is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them.

Neither persons or property will be safe.

So I just wanted to share If you guys basically

his mindset before we really dig into his autobiography, all

their motives will be our my first slide.

I jotted down some themes that I found throughout the

book transformation.

I believe it.

Waas. It was, ah, good choice of theme for transformation

because he did transform from a slave to why I

believe a man in a man is a human with

freedom. Um And then going on to then the theme

of freedom, The freedom of thought, the freedom of speech,

a physical freedom and emotional freedom and a spiritual freedom,

power and corruption and desire to escape.

I believe those both have to do with the United

States government at this particular time, um, and the desire

to escape that which is bondage in every aspect.

He used his autobiography to exercise the literary devices to

eat those pathos and logo.

And he does this through his childhood experiences and memories

and the oppressive societal norms which were presented in the

18 hundreds, 17 hundreds, up for about 240 years of

slavery on Afro American.

He makes arguments on the basic rights for human, Um,

and that is the basic right of freedom, freedom of

speech, freedom of thought, freedom of a physical freedom to

run, to live, to survive.

But that which is also mental and spiritual.

Ah, spiritually freedom in Christ in a mental freedom to

be to have identity on.

Then he also presents throughout the autobiography, testaments for the

importance of literacy.

He stresses the importance to know how to read and

write, and how this is a fundamental foundation for knowledge

and understanding and that which is becoming who you are

as a person, so moving forward a few things about

the author.

So here are a couple pictures of Frederick Douglass.

Um, it's estimated that he was born in February 18

18 and died February 2018 95.

Uh, just a brief synopsis of his life because this

is an autobiography.

So I don't want to, like, give away everything.

But he was born a slave and his father was

white. And his mother was a slave, a black slave.

Herning was Harry Bailey.

He lived most of the child food most of his

young adulthood and childhood in Maryland, ER, but which was

considered the South, and that which, um, fluctuated between Eastern

Shore, Maryland and Baltimore, Maryland.

But Baltimore, Maryland, was a very good point in his

life. His childhood, because this is where he learned how

to be literate.

This where he learned the beginnings, the foundations of him

learning how to read and how to write.

And then he transferred back and forth from the shore,

Maryland to different places.

Different, um, slave owners and slave masters and plantations and

experiences, um, and the terrible hardships of slavery and work.

The work that they had to do, they took his

free art.

He he took his freedom back.

Uh, he was given by a very kind man, Freedom

papers. And he was sent on a ship to Bedford

where he got a job and with a free man,

a free, literate man who was able to do what

he wanted to do.

Um, he got married, and he took his freedom and

used it to be an active member of the civil

rights movement for Afro Americans and an abolitionist during the

time of slavery.

Um, so a few achievements of Frederick Douglass, I believe

that he has several other ones listed, Uh, that aren't

evening recorded, but here, just a few that I found,

uh, some include him being an adviser.

Abraham Lincoln.

Um, another one is him publishing his own newspaper, the

North Star, which was super duper popular in the 18

hundreds. Um, he was a trusted advisor of Abraham Lincoln,

became a minister general for Haiti, wrote and published his

three autobiographies.

So he was very much so.

Though he was a slave and he was black, and

he was not.

He was not thought of as equal.

He took his freedom as a man, and he used

it to be helpful to that which made the society

of oppression one that can change and create equality for

all. Uh, so that was just a little history, but

his autobiography gives way more detail and its way, um,

way more thorough.

Uh, in that s o beginning.

It was published in 18.

45. Um, and his pre face was written by William

Lloyd Garrison, a good friend of his, uh, just a

few things throughout the book.

In chapter one, he notes that the slaves were not

recorded their ages.

They weren't giving birth certificates.

So she actually doesn't know how you are healthy was

No one really does.

There was an estimate, but, um, he didn't know his

father, but he knew his father was white, so he

believed his father was a slave owner.

Um, he was stripped from his family at a very

young age, so he didn't have very small groups, is

of his mother, But they were very Marceau faded, and

he just shares continuous stories of slavery and the horrors

of slavery and notorious slave masters that owned him.

A couple were name calling.

Now Lloyd and Mr Gord, um, Frederick, like I was

saying earlier, he moved back and forth from Baltimore in

Eastern. Sure, but Baltimore is where his foundation started under,

um, his woman slave master, uh, miss all.

I believe her name was pronounced and she taught him

up a bit.

From there.

He was able to teach himself how to read and

write. Um, and he also went about religion.

He went about the Methodist religion world living in Maryland.

And, um, eventually he was set on a ship to

New Bedford with his Freedom papers.

And, um, that's one of the autobiography.

Pretty much end.

So moving forward a few of scholarly studies, interpretations and

perspectives on the book The Auto Buyer, his autobiography, The

Narrative of the Life Partner Douglas Um one is written

by Lucinda H.

Make Your Thin and she explains that he writes about

freedom in literacy and understanding and how that makes a

man shows about how he emphasizes this importance throughout the

book. To read to.

To have knowledge in the beginning of knowledge is knowing

what you're reading, knowing what you're being served as the

truth. Um, so that's what her argument was.

The other critical essay was written by Eric J.

Sundquist and compares the first narrative are the first autobiography

written by a Frederick Douglass up himself second.

Ah, he believes that they share two different, um, beans.

The 1st 1 that Frederick Douglass wrote.

He believes that our rhetoric about not beings rhetoric.

So, um, the 1st 1 that he wrote of which

one I'm presenting the narrative okay separates American from that

which is quote unquote Negro Black, the Afro American of

the African descended person.

Um, the and he talks about how the second book,

which is entitled My bondage and my Freedom.

That one, um, is more so about being an American

with no race, no ties to race or bondage or

oppression, being an American and succeeding with that which hand

you're given.

Um, And in the third essay, ah, journal by William

and M.

Ramsey basically speaks on the entirety of the South and

the raft that waas, um, shown to slaves in the

Sabbath. It also speaks on how they used Christianity to

manipulate and to control the slaves of the South, Um,

and use that against them to obey their masters.

And he gives several quote throughout that and hey, also

records a few letters written by, um, Frederick Douglass to

his slave masters.

Um, about how he is a free man and he

is a man just like them.

He is an equal eagle stance.

Man, There were those work you scholarly from studies.

But all in all, this autobiography was written to encourage

and to inspire those that freedom is yours.

And you must fight to take it.

Sometimes drivers have to fight to take it.

And project did just that.

He he became his own father's own man and he

grew and he learned and he struggled.

But he survived and he kept going.

So yeah, I hope you all enjoyed.

Thank you so much.

Jewel Norman-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Book Report

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