The Effects Of Slavery On Slaveholders

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The effects that Douglass believes slavery has on slaveholders were not allowing the salves to learn read and write, so they would not learn about what current events going on within the country. Thus, the slaves would not consider to revolt against their slave masters. At first, the actions of his former mistress support his assertion were not affecting her way she treated the slaves; however, she slowly treated the slaves inhumanly without remorse. Douglass does not mention the names of the boys because he knew the boys would be firmly punish for their actions of teaching a slave how toread. During this time period, the society is cruel in many lengths that they would punish anyone for creating destruction for more slaves to read and write