Even with crying children begging him to stop, the overseer continues and even taking pleasure in dealing out the whipping. Not only is Frederick Douglass describing the violent scene with his narration, he also displayed the sadistic nature of the overseer through his words. He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity” (241). He describe the imagery as, “I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother’s release. The second time he uses the violent imagery to show the horrors and evils of slavery is when he talked about Mr. He continues with saying how he “was so terrified and horror stricken at the sight” (239) showing the intensity of the violence that was happening. Frederick Douglas narrated the scene as, “Her arms were stretched up at their full length, so that she stood upon the ends of her toes… after rolling up his sleeves, he commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin, and soon the warm, red blood (amid heart-rending shrieks from her, and horrid oaths from him) came dripping to the floor” (239). The first time the violent imagery was used is in chapter I where Frederick Douglass narrates the violent punishment of Aunt Hester. In the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, Frederick Douglass uses violent imagery to show the horrors and evils of slavery as well as the corruption within a society where slavery is legal.
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