American Literature / Unit 9 AML 0806 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mrs. Auld: How Slavery Corrupts the Slaveholder
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The idea
Douglass describes a kind, tender-hearted woman who treated him as one human being ought to treat another, then writes that slavery proved as injurious to her as to him: the tender heart became stone, the lamblike disposition gave way to tiger-like fierceness.
In practice
A kind woman, turned to stone.
Where people slip
Corruption by power, not natural cruelty.
Your place on the trail
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