Life as a slave
...he men and women wanted to look like good little followers of god, poster children of holiness. Still all the while taking out all the emotions and urges put upon then by the same god. One can not have it all. However, hypocrisy can not bloom in to all its wonder until it has an ignorance rich bed to grow in. Yes, the path in which so many slave holders whished to take in bringing up their slaves. Seeing things as other want us to and not finding out the truth or reality for ourselves. When Mrs. Auld began to teach Douglass to read, she did not intend to make an equal or herself, but rather a person of some intellect to converse with. Her husband at work and her children out to play, she was lonely and wanted company. Douglass happy to be more as anything caught on quickly, shedding his ignorance and all its faults with it. Lessons stopped when her husband found out, telling her as reason that education would spoil the slave for the rest of his life. In one sense he was right but also ignorant himself in the comment. Education did in sense spoil Douglass’ but for the better in leading him out of slavery. He wanted to learn as any other human had the privilege to. Like wise we should never expect anyone’s theories as truth, but as one find the truth. We need to find for ourselves and not live in others ignorance. In addition to hypocrisy and ignorance, there lies something worse than both themes… the dehumanizing effects of slavery. If anything in this world is worse than murder this is it. Anything that brings down a persons self concept of themselves is evil. It is the loss of ones worth as a human, as a part of society and life it self. Douglass at one point regrets his own existence. He...