Friends and family...you know I have lived a long time and I have come a long way. And you must know now that what I did, I did originally for myself. Then later, as these things began
happening to me, I wondered if they were happening to you, and then I knew they must be. And
I knew that you had no way to defend yourselves, as I had.
And as I continued to do the things I did, and to say the things I said, they began to beat me. Not
beat me, mind you, with a club—but you know, I have seen that done too—but they beat me with
their pens, with their writings. And friends, that is much worse.
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away.
Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and
many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was
like a fairyland place.

*sniffs* I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope you feel better, if possible. Maybe one day you'll be able to be happy.

love, how my life is right now. you can be loved and can love others. sometimes you dont feel loved right now, dont worry, someone out there is loving you while you are away.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.