Unit 3: The Secret Raod to Freedom (1èreG_gr2)
They Lived to Tell the Tale
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A
The
document under study is an autobiography
Of Frederick
Douglass, published in 1845. In this
Extract,
he mentions a childhood episode telling about the fact that contrary to white children
who knew their age, black slaves did not have that privilege. In fact, questions were frowned
upon by the masters to let slaves in their ignorance. Indeed, slaves were reduced to being mere properties
and treated like horses. It was a dehumanizing process.
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B
The
document under study is an extract of a speech pronounced by Frederick Douglass
on July 4th 1852. In this extract, he was explaining what the 4th
of July meant to American slaves. Indeed, according
to him, this celebration is a shame because slavery that was taking place in
the USA at the time contradicted the values of the Declaration of Independence.
Douglass was the denouncing the hypocrisy of this celebration.
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C
The
document under study is an extract of a speech pronounced by Harriet Tubman in
1859 during a convention that stipulated the end of slavery should be done by
sending black slaves back to Africa. However,
Tubman and other abolitionists were against this idea. In
fact, even though blacks were forced to be sent to America for slavery,
they were then rooted there. America was the
place they belonged to, no one should have the right to send them away.
