Frederick Douglass & “The Birth Of A Nation”

After reading the article in the New York Times that described a helpless colored slavery woman in the movie called, “The Birth of a Nation”. The main theme of the movie is a black woman whose name is Esther was the subject to be raped. Her emotions were so silent but her facial expression shows a lot about her feeling in that situation, painful, helpless, and hopeless. This tells us that most women slaves often suffer the worst tortures from their slavery owners, but they cannot do or say anything about that. This connects to Fredrick Douglass ‘s narrative, in his narrative’s beginning, Douglass shows us how her aunt, Hester, suffered tortures from her slavery owner, Mr. Plummer. There is an image about her aunt who was stripped her clothes and beaten by the anger man. Douglass also shows us that some of the slave masters even let other men raped their women slaves in order to earn money.  Esther and Hester, woman slaves had suffered unimaginable violence and abuse continuously, they were unable to fight back or do anything to against their master in that era. They had suffered not only physiologically, but also physically. Women of colored had been treated very unfairly in that era around the world.  After Douglass witnessed the helpless, painful, and hopeless of woman slaves, his feeling has been abused. In addition to that, witnessing what his aunt had been through and all other sufferings of the slavery system have made him hate the slavery. Those experiences have led him to become a leader of the movement of abolition.

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