The book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas," by Frederick Douglas, is about Frederick Douglas's journey from slavery to freedom. It talks about the hard life of slaves, with horrible punishments, and very little to eat, etc. It then talks about his journey towards reading, writing, and eventually freedom. At the end of the book, it talks about the abolitionist movement and Frederick Douglas's role in it. I know that slavery was eventually abolished in the US and most of the rest of the World, but in modern times there are more slaves in the world than there were during this time before the emancipation of slaves. My question about this is: after all are the hard work it took to abolish slavery, why and how are there so many slaves now? People have always been the same, they are greedy, and easily corrupted by power. Most people know this, so why did they let it get so bad before they started stepping in to help?
I think this would have been a very interesting discussion, if we had a seminar on it, and I would be very interested in what people have to say about slavery now vs. slavery then.
No comments:
Post a Comment