Journal #2 In the excerpt by Frederick Douglass, My bondage and My Freedom, he starts off calmly by telling the audience about the family in the house, and his family as slaves. He talks about how the meals work, and what they are left over with. As he writes, you can almost hear his expression becoming angrier about how much food they are left with. He then starts talking about stealing food, and other belongings of the master. He seems like the sneakier one out of the other three slaves. He didn’t steal simply because he was hungry, but because he though he deserved it. He thought it was “the result of a clear apprehension of the claims of morality”. He never thought when he took the food it was considered stealing; it was “removal”. The food being “stolen” by Douglass is technically helping the master; it’s going back into Douglass’ labor by keeping him strong and fit. He portrays stealing as right, and what is fair. The master owns him, so what ever else he owns, is the slaves also. At the end of his excerpt he is basically saying, what is to me sounds like, no one owns anything. Douglass mentions that he can rob anyone in slave society because society is robbing him of his liberty. In a free society, people are able to “help themselves” to anything. Him being a slave, his labor paid for what the master has, so which in turn is also his property. Douglass argues that slaves are only property; therefore how can they be held to human moral standards? Stealing was considered the standard for slave society. All of this is very eye opening, and I myself would never think of it this way. In a way I do agree with him because slaves were treated terribly. He did work for what the master has, so he does deserve a little more food and care. The family lives the good life, and the slaves are always on the back burner. Slaves are humans, and if humans want a good