AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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Seeing his mother die
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Watching a slave get beaten to death
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Watching his aunt get whipped
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Watching his dad beat his mother
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a child on the plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd, Douglass witnesses brutal whippings of various slaves-male and female, old and young. But for the most part, he describes his childhood as a typical or representative story, rather than a unique or individual narrative.
Detailed explanation-2: -Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war’s outcomes. He recruited African-American men to fight in the U.S. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Though Douglass believed that the only way to freedom was through literacy, at the same time, literacy led him to loathe his live as a slave as he felt overcome with the chains of slavery that confined him to a life not worth living.
Detailed explanation-4: -1. Why wasn’t Douglass affected much by his mother’s death? Answer: He never saw his mother more than four or five times in his life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night.