salves are human

in the time period of Fredrick Douglass slaves were treated as property, not people. yet a lot of chapters five six and seven show how they were. on page 23, last paragraph before chapter six, Douglass talks of how when he was a boy, he believed that slavery would hold him for his whole lifetime. this is hope, something that no piece of property could ever have. i believe that instead of needing to find reasons he was arguing that slaves were human too, we should just look at the whole narrative itself. the whole reason he wrote this was to convert people into believing slavery is wrong. so obviously, he must be human, not property, to have this much compassion for this belief. in chapter seven, he writes of him making friends of the white kids in hopes of learning to read and write, this is common for man, to want to learn and be above what is expected of him. so this compassion he shows throughout the entire narrative should be enough proof that slaves are human. because no man could ever write of such things he cared so deeply for. so for us to say that they are not human, is a great fallacy.