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i chose the 3rd one, the perserving the union. the war was going to happen anyways so why not just go with it? thats all i have to say

chapter 8 to page 40

as i read this, i began to feel lost. so i read it again and i only got so much information out of it. the only parts i really remember where when he was sent to Baltimore and he learned to read. then he couldn't go back to just being a slave because now he knew how bad his life was. then he kept taking about how his gift to read was more like a curse because if he thought about his situation he would get depressed. some where in here he talks about how he should have killed him self or gotten himself killed, that just gives you an idea on how much he hated every thing about being a slave. when his new master died he was auctioned back off and was sold back to his old owners brother. he is a mean old drunk but he dies anyways and Fredrick runs away in fear of being auctioned again. thats what i got out of it.

Comments/question on chapters 5,6,and 7 Kal and Eric

Chapter 5:                                                                     
why was Douglass chosen to go to Baltimore?
it was probably just luck
Chapter 6:                                                                      
whats so much better about the new master?
maybe hes nicer or gives them more food
Chapter 7:
why did the mistress help Fredrick in teaching he to read?
she probably feels bad for him

Amistad

today in history we watched part of a film called Amistad. it was about slaves being sold by other Africans to make money and get equipment to fight wars against other African tribes. the story follows one of the guys who is captured by another tribe and is sold to the Americans. it shows how brutal the white people were to them, they had a priest "purify" them when they got on board. they whipped them around and some guy just shot one for no reason. then it showed them getting the slaves being thrown on the ground. they were punching and kicking and throwing the slaves around. very very unnecessary. then some slave lady has a baby on the ship and then commits suicide by falling off the boat with the baby. yeah some two guys were getting whipped while that happened. i think it was the main slave guy's wife or something. i think in the circumstances they were in i would have done the same. it looked pretty bad and i bet if was way worse than that.

The naritive of a story of a story written by fredrick douglass about fredrick douglass in the 1800's

chapter 1

its about a slave way back when and its mostly just about what he did and how bad his owners would abuse and torture him. well the don't actually torture him like lashes and razor blades but like in the way that he cant do anything he wants. he all ways has to do what they say and it really makes me hate my ancestors. yeah that's all i have to say about it. i don't get how other people can write like whole essays on this little subject.