Comparison Of Slavery InThe Classic Slave Narratives By...

While in this horrible life that slaves lived in many would recorded their encounters on how it was being a slave. In the book The Classic Slave Narratives you read how slaves are brutally beaten occasionally by their master or overseer. In the story of Mary Prince and Frederick Douglas you see all the heart ache that these slaves had to go through. There is similarity in which all slaves stories are the same but different in their own way. When learning about slavery we already know about all the bad things they went through but its all different when you actually hear it from their point of few. Which is really horrifying to learn the truth of what these slaves had to face. When it comes to Mary Prince and Frederick Douglas there are†¦show more content†¦So coming to see who had a better life Douglas was more fortunate then Prince not only cause of his living style as a slave but because he was educated. When talking about beatings both Frederick Douglas and Mary Prince sh ow how cruel people where. Mary Prince talked about Mr. D- would beat slaves and she stated that â€Å"Nothing could touch his hard heart- neither sighs, nor tears, nor prayers, nor streaming blood; he was deaf to our cries, and careless of our sufferings.† Mary Prince, Page 268. Likewise Frederick Douglas choose similar words to explain the beatings of slaves. â€Å"No words, no tears, no prayer, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from his bloody purpose†. They both encountered horrible beatings and witness them as well. And they both knew that no matter what they or any slave did and said they were going to get beat with out any mercy. Nothing could of stop these horrible people because they were emotionless. Prince and Douglas both show how these people had to have no heart to beat a person the way slaves where beated. When being a slave there is one thing you have in common with all slaves and that is the desire for freedom. Mary Prince wanted to be free she wanted to go back to her husband. She tried numerous times to buy her freedom â€Å"They gave me a little money from time to time to keep me from want; and some of them went to Mr. Wood to try to