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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by fetters and chains one of
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kellogg's more unsuccessful brands of cereal All right you're the
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following passage from life of frederick douglass are granted gone
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work grooming grantland Scholars were national alright in paragraph to
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the author refers to the chains in fetters of slavery
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in order Tio what And here essential answers sir Yeah
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So what's up with this mention of fetters and chains
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Well choice be totally does not have it right Slavery
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did involve a certain amount of literal fetters and chains
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but douglas isn't necessarily talking about those Most slaves weren't
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changed twenty four by seven not that gives slave owners
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and a plus on their human rights report card or
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anything but we're just saying she isn't going to make
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the cut either Douglas never says that he was literally
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chained before he escaped she's just making stuff up Option
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d doesn't work because it tries to make the chains
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and fetters about douglas himself over in the mention in
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paragraph two he's specifically talking about the chains and fetters
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of his brother slaves well is the correct answer The
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image of chains and fetters communicates a sense of the
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terrible injustice of slavery Douglas actually mentions chains twice in
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the passage to provide a visual image of the suffering
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that slaves experienced and it works Next time we complain
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about the wifi Being down we'll use this image to 00:01:33.663 --> [endTime] put things in perspective
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