Before the beating, she was stripped from her neck to the waist and then whipped severely.
This is an act of inhumanity because it appears that the slaves were “tethered” like livestock and were not free to attend their needs.
All this was done because she was not there when the master “desired her presence” (Douglass 14). After Aunt Hester had gone out, she was severely beaten and caused to bleed profusely. The most portrayed act of inhumanity is the frequent beatings that were perpetrated on slaves. Let us have a look at the evidence of these acts of inhumanity portrayed in Douglass’s book. Slaves were denied their rights to literacy, severely beaten, overworked in farms, provided with poor living conditions, abused sexually, separated from their families, killed, tortured psychologically and emotionally, dehumanized, etc. Aspects of American slaveryĪmerican slavery was characterized with many acts of inhumanity. This paper is a description of the brutality that Douglas witnessed as a slave (Douglass 4). The book is filled with names, scenes and events which evidence its truthfulness. He then goes on to give a detailed description of the brutality that was perpetrated against American slaves during his time as a slave. Douglss begins the book by giving a detailed description of his childhood life and the effects that slavery had on him as a child.
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