Romantic Writing A Frederick Douglass Auto-Biography B
List of elements from American Romanticism: Who: Frederick Douglass
- Belief of natural goodness in man What: Writing of his experience after working for a slave-breaker.
-Nature as a source of delight for the soul Where: Maryland
-High value placed on finding connection with nature and self When: 1833
-Development of unique form in each work. Why: To notify Americans of the problems that slaves struggled
through
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Campbell, Donna M (2003, August 22). American Romanticism. Description of a severe beating after denying to take clothes off:
Retrieved November 26, 2007, from American Romanticism
Web site: “Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a tiger, tore off my
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/romanticism.htm Clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so
savagely as to leave the marks visible for a long time after.
Frederick Douglass Auto-Biography B Frederick Douglass Auto-Biography B
Douglass, Frederick. (1833). Life with a slave breaker. Douglass illustrates the chapter of his life where he worked for a slave
breaker whose name was Mr. Corey.
Using explicit details, Douglass describes scenes during his stay with
Mr. Corey.
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A few years after escaping slavery in 1838, Douglass began working for On the last page of the document, Douglass noted that his
an abolitionist society. experiences with Mr. Covey was the absolute worst.
“Work, work, work, was scarcely more the order of the day than
Of the night.
“Discipline tamed him after the first few months”.
Frederick Douglass Auto-Biography B Anti-Slavery Movement C
“Master Thomas at length said he would stand it no longer.” Marmesh, E (1999). Antislavery movement: African-Americans.
Retrieved December 18, 2007, from African-Americans in the
Douglass lived with him for nine months, and received severe Anti-Slavery Movement
whippings, Web site:
http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/antislavery_movement/africans.htm
Sent for one year to a man named Edward Covey.
Anti-Slavery Movement C United States Timeline D
Frederick Douglass:
Mystic Seaport, (1997). Timeline: The United States. Retrieved
“Most important and probably the most influential black abolitionist” December 18, 2007, from Timeline: The United States
Web site:
“…first introduced to the Anti-slavery movement when he attended a http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/united.states.html
convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1841.”