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2 paragraphs on Fredrick Douglass and captain canots perspectives on slavery and how there different QUICK PLEASE HELP ME

Answer 1

 

In order for slaves to rescue themselves from slavery, they must educate themselves. It is from Hugh Auld that Douglass learns this notion that knowledge must be the way to freedom, because Auld prohibits his wife from teaching Douglass how to read and write because education ruins slaves. Douglass sees that Auld has unwittingly revealed the strategy by which whites manage to keep blacks as slaves and by which blacks might free themselves. Douglass presents his own self-education as the primary means by which he is able to free himself, and as his greatest tool to work for the freedom of all slaves.

Frederick Douglass wanted freedom for all slaves, but Captain Canot wanted slavery. Frederick Douglass devoted the bulk of his time, immense talent, and boundless energy to ending slavery and gaining equal rights for African Americans. These were the central concerns of his long reform career. Douglass understood that the struggle for emancipation and equality required forceful, persistent, and rigid agitation.
Douglass likewise maintains distance between himself and slavery in his commentary on slave songs. He explains that he did not fully understand the meaning of the songs when he himself was a slave, but can now recognize and interpret them as laments. Douglass’s voice in the Narrative is authoritative, and this authority comes from his standing as someone who has escaped mental and physical slavery and embraced education and articulation. Douglass’s position as mediator between slaves and the Northern white reading audience rests on his doubling of self. He must be both the demeaned self who experienced slavery and the liberated, educated self who can interpret the institution of slavery.

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