The Cycle Of Dehumanization In Douglass, By Thoreau And...

Douglass is referring to a scene in his narrative where he learns that his master, Hugh Auld, does not want his wife to teach him how to read because it is a median of controlling enslaved black people and perpetuating oppression. Because with language Douglass believes that, â€Å"knowledge makes a man to be unfit to be a safe,† and that â€Å"once you learn to read, you will be forever free.† Douglass is able to recognize the system at an early age and with the unintentional guidance by his master Auld he peruses a path to freedom through reading and writing. Unfortunately for Douglass, knowing led to more pain when recognizing the constructs that bind black people into slavery. But eventually Douglass was able to overcome the physical abuse that†¦show more content†¦Thoreau also suggests that the woods are scary and dangerous to them because it represents unfamiliarity. But the minds of children and young because have not been tainted by capitalism and its a bility to shift morals. Douglass mirrors and discusses internalizing the brute when he states, â€Å"it is easier to build a strong man than to repair broken men,† suggesting that if slave children found the knowledge or had access to education it would be easier to escape their bondage as they grew up. But slaves who have never had access to mental liberation conform to societal expectations and systems and believe that it is God’s divine will that they live this sort of life. This characterization could be associated with a character constructed in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, â€Å"Uncle Tom’s Cabin,† which is a novel that uses the obedient Christian slave Uncle Tom to shift the Northern United States perception of slavery in 1852. In â€Å"Uncle Tom’s Cabin,† by Harriet Beecher Stowe the conflict of the story is based on the fact that Arthur Shelby has fallen into debt and must sell his slaves to help save the family property. Thoreau would first address the fact that Arthur Shelby does not live a deliberate life. Others must tend his family, land and farm so he is participating in capitalism. The farm is there contribution to capitalism, whether that is selling agricultural products