Qualities needed for slaves to survive consisted of determination, networking and communicating with the Lord. These three qualities that were chosen seemed to be the most obvious because they embodied freedom. Not only freedom for the individual but for all that loved life. These qualities Empowered survival to the slaves.
Fredrick Douglas is a fine example of determination. As a young child of 6 years old he was determined to be free and therefore he would need to survive in order to do so. In a letter Douglas wrote to his master titled, “Letter to his old master. To my old master, Thomas Auld”. He states that he had “the determination to run away”. He knew that there was a better life for him than what slavery offered him. Especially…show more content… In Fredrick Douglas’s letter titled “Bondage and my freedom”, he displays his ability to network by encouraging his fellow slaves to share with all their experience of slavery as he writes “Dear friends…I have also felt that it was best for those having histories worth the writing… to commit such work to hands other than their own”. Through networking everyone can learn and share from their individual experience and therefore sustain survival through this quality with the ability to network and be…show more content… In Chapter 5 of “The Interesting narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” as he was being transported to London he states “I wept very bitterly for some time and began to think that I must have done something to displease the Lord”. He had numerous discussions with the Lord. He even stated that what he was going through would strengthen him. With the quality of communicating with the Lord a slave could “Check and Balance” them self to keep them going in good and bad times. He says…” I thought God might perhaps have permitted this in order to teach me wisdom and resignation”. This quality to communicate with the Lord was lifesaving to many slaves. They also communicated to the Lord through prayers and songs. The Lord was always on their mind. This quality indeed empowered the
