Just let me know if there are any mistakers, should I change anything, and what would be a better closing statement. The paragraph is about the Narrative of Frederick Douglass:
Although many authors openly wrote of their disgust towards slavery, Frederick Douglass used his clever use of sarcasm to let readers know his opinion. Such is the case when he remarks, “All of these [Lloyd family] lived at the Great House Farm, and enjoyed the luxury of whipping the servants when they pleased, from old Barney down to William Wilkes, the coach-driver†(Douglass 29). Due to the fact that Douglass’s writing was so detailed when describing Aunt Hester’s whipping, readers would find it obvious that he does not find whipping as “enjoyableâ€Â. Douglass’s sarcasm is very incisive in concerning the barbarous nature of slavery. Once more, Frederick Douglass uses sarcasm when he comments, “It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave, but to be a poor man’s slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!†(Douglass 31). Although numerous people found it absurd to think of slavery as such, slaves were uneducated, they did not know what was honorable and what was disgraceful! While many slaves actually did find disgrace in being a poor man’s slave, Douglass uses the thought as major irony because slavery was very much despised. When abolitionists fought slavery through paperback, none could write with the uniqueness that Fredrick Douglass wrote with.
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