Frederick Douglass Slavery

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Frederick Douglass, African-American writer and abolitionist, was born into slavery and endured the horrors of life as a slave under a capitalist society that profited on exploiting him and others of his kind. One crucial theme in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the treatment of slaves as property. Throughout the Narrative, Douglass tries to reconcile with the idea that slaves are human beings and the fact that slave owners treat them as property. Douglass shows how slave owners value slaves only to the extent that they can perform productive labor. Douglass describes this treatment of humans as objects or animals as cruel and