![]() ![]() Douglass argues against the notion that slaves who sing are content instead, he likens singing to crying - a way to relieve sorrow. He witnesses brutal beatings and the murder of a slave, which goes unnoticed by the law or the community at large. As a slave of Captain Anthony and Colonel Lloyd, Douglass survives on meager rations and is often cold. Throughout the next several chapters, Douglass describes the conditions in which he and other slaves live. ![]() In the first chapter, Douglass also makes mention of the hypocrisy of Christian slave owners who used religious teachings to justify their abhorrent treatment of slaves the religious practice of slave owners is a recurrent theme in the text. Here and throughout the autobiography, Douglass highlights the common practice of white slave owners raping slave women, both to satisfy their sexual hungers and to expand their slave populations. Douglass' Narrative begins with the few facts he knows about his birth and parentage his father is a slave owner and his mother is a slave named Harriet Bailey. ![]()
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