Question
On "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (chapter 1) :
Quote the law about children of slave women. What is the result of the law? How does it contradict the argument that God cursed Ham, therefore, slavery is justified?
I know the story of Noah and Ham, but I'm not entirely sure where the law is in the story. I believe it's this:
"Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor."
...I'm not really sure though. Help please? Thanks!
Quote the law about children of slave women. What is the result of the law? How does it contradict the argument that God cursed Ham, therefore, slavery is justified?
I know the story of Noah and Ham, but I'm not entirely sure where the law is in the story. I believe it's this:
"Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor."
...I'm not really sure though. Help please? Thanks!
Answers
Ms. Sue
Didn't children of slave women automatically also become slaves -- even if their father was free?
Anonymous
Yeah. According to the story, Douglass was sent to another plantation.
Ms. Sue
That was the law -- that children of slave women were also slaves.