Justeen Tomlinson
History 17A
15 November 2006
Question #2
The year is 1845 and I am here sitting with the famous self-educated Negro man, Fredrick Douglas. After reading the "Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglas", I have some questions for him about the conditions and brutality he claimed slaves went through and also aspects of the life of a slave. As a white Southern reporter I feel that slavery is good, and many of the slaves are happy to be their condition. Slavery in many minds of southerners is a positive civilizing development for African Americans.
When a slave is out working in the hot sun, doing hard labor in the fields of there master they sing and whistle because they are happy. Many slaves if you were to ask them how their master treats them would answer with a positive answer, putting their master on a pedestal in a sense. This is the common perception of a white southerner, but the truth is different says Fredrick Douglas.

Reporter: Mr. Douglas,......

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