Story of the Life of Frederick Douglass It is the story of Frederick Douglass that reveals the truly evil face of slavery. It talks about some of the most horrible and inhumane practices and the complete denial of justice to the slaves. In the rest of his story, he recounts two cases of fatal brutality: in one of them, a planter intentionally and knowingly shot dead a slave belonging to a neighboring plantation, who had accidentally entered his manorial domain at searching for fish; and in the other, an overseer blew out the brains of a slave who had fled to a stream to escape a bloody scourge. Mr. DOUGLASS asserts that in none of these cases was any action taken by way of an officially authorized arrest or judicial investigation. The idea is that it must never be forgotten that no slave owner or superintendent can be found guilty of any offense committed against the person of a slave, however tyrannical, on the authentication of a colored eyewitness, whether slave or free. According to slavery convention, they are considered incapable of testifying against a white man, as if they were actually part of the beast or animal creation. There is therefore in fact no legal refuge, whatever its structure, for the slave population; and any form of brutality can be imposed on them with impunity. This story raises questions such as: Is it likely that the human mind imagines a more horrible and hideous state of society? I WAS born at Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland. I have no precise knowledge of my age, having never seen an authentic document containing it. By far, most slaves also know little about their age...... middle of paper ...... the fairness he experiences. 2 The despair he faces at one point also pushes the writer to consider suicide. This quite clearly represents the mental anarchy that many other slaves would have suffered from. Heinous practices were described, including severely beating female slaves until they bled and whipping them. In conclusion, Frederick Douglass' book apparently seems more reliable because he himself had lived experience as a slave and had a lot of information to offer that revealed many practices that only a slave who saw them carried tyranny under his eyes. could put into words. References Frederick Douglass; Unknown, 1995 Story of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1995 Michele A. Henkel; 2002, Forging Identity through Literary Reinterpellation: The Ideological Project of Narrative Literature and the Psychology of Frederick Douglass, 2002