North American Slavery vs. Latin American Slavery: A Comparative Look a

North American Slavery versus Latin American Slavery: A Comparative Look at Frederick Douglass and Juan Francisco Manzano At the point when we evaluate the wrongs of subjugation, we regularly think about the North American slaves situation. We think about the beatings, murders, hangings and abuse of the Southern slave. In any case, shouldn't something be said about the captives of Latin America? Who hears their cries of trouble as a result of their abhorrent slave drivers? Is their treatment the equivalent of their brethren under slave rule in North America? So as to respond to these inquiries, it is important to investigate the lives of both North and Latin American slaves. For our motivations, we will use two slave accounts. One record will originate from the North American slave, Frederick Douglass, and his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The other record will originate from the story Autobiography of a Slave by the Cuban slave Juan Francisco Manzano. In investigating these two slave stories, we will think about the youth, slave networks, slave/ace relations, and writing of both Douglass and Manzano. By investigating Frederick Douglass and Juan Francisco Manzano we will have the option to hear the voices of the slaves and comprehend their situation. Youth Adolescence is a time of development when our characters start to form into the kind of people we will in the end become. This is a pivotal time where our personalities are shaping dependent on how we are treated by everyone around us. +If a youngster is frequently dealt with as a weight that individual will take on an adverse persona. On account of youngsters living under the dim hands of subjugation, it was difficult to have a typical adolescence. A slave's folks were constantly off leading relentless errands, or they were sold away... ...at to the Slave of the Fourth of July?, accordingly situating himself as a lobbyist and a representative. Douglass proceeded to distribute two additional stories, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1881. In the middle of when he was composing his different life accounts, Douglass worked for the New National Era, a week after week paper in Washington D.C. Beside his composing achievements, Douglass turned into a key figure in the abolitionist and the equivalent rights developments. He was respected as a speaker, creator and legislator. Works Cited Douglass, Frederick. Story of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Penguin Group, 1987. Manzano, Juan Francisco. Personal history of a Slave. Detroit: Wayn State University Press, 1996. Wilson, Ruth. Latin America Speaks. http://130.132.143.21/ynhti/educational program/units/1990/1/90.01.04.x.html