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Reaction to the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself

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In this text the stories of the slave women being beaten angered many of the readers. Douglass uses three women to show how the female body is used as a symbol of slave brutality. He uses this to invoke emotion from his audience and get a positive response in the fight against slavery. The first case of this slave brutality is with Aunt Hester...
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Although Aunt Hester disobeyed her master's orders by going out at night with Lloyd Ned, this is no excuse for such cruelty. Her punishment for this doesn't seem to sit the crime. She is taken into the kitchen, stripped to her waist, and then tied up with her arms on top of her head. Then the master hangs her from a hook and beats her with heavy cow skin...
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