Monday, September 28, 2009

What are two examples in the text of Douglass exaggerating or self-glorifying?

I found
Douglass's autobiography to be a
brilliant, moving, and impassioned piece of abolitionist
literature. I can
not say that I have found his autobiography to contain elements of

exaggeration or self-glorification. Indeed, Douglass mentions times in which he fought
back
against slave owners, and some readers may find this difficult to
accept. However, slave
rebellions, on an individual and collective level,
occurred consistently throughout the
centuries of slavery. In fact, many
slave owners feared the power and number of the human beings
that they held
in bondage and used many torturous means to prevent uprisings and individual

resistance. However, these tactics did not always work, and there were certainly times
when
slave owners were unable to maintain full control. Douglass describes
the slave owners by whom
he was held in bondage in Baltimore as far less
physically torturous than previous slave owners.
It is certainly possible
that Douglass was able to intimidate the Baltimore...

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