Chapters 5, 6, and 7 Do slaves deserve to have human rights?

His connection to Colonel Lloyd's son Daniel is really neat. When I first read it thought that, that was the reason he only had two masters his whole life. It does not make sense to me that someone would rather be hanged in England than die a natural death in Ireland. I would rather die a natural death then to be killed at someone elses hand. He at least has kept his mind intact so that he can feel awe at how large the capital of the State is and even better that it is more imposing than the Great House Farm. I am glad that he has such a happy new start in Baltimore where the wife brightens up his day but it is so sad that he has never seen such happiness before. I would never think of a slave as an egotistical because there would be too much at risk for them. In Chapter 6, he sounds as if he is in love with his new mistress because she treated him as an equal and also the way he talks about her with her face made of heavenly smiles and voice like tranquil music. Following this great happiness there is a terrible tragedy, his mistress teaches him the A, B, Cs and then to spell three or four letter words. His master disagrees because he says that learning would spoil the best slave in the world. It is really neat that he could understand how white man could enslave the black man. It was because they kept the slaves uneducated so that they have no knowledge of anything so how can they revolt or even stand up for themselves. His path to freedom  was by learning and teaching himself. I applaud him for teaching himself. It is also terribly sad that even though Douglass was so kindly blessed to have nice masters, others were less fortunate, like the two girls across the street. Mrs. Hamilton obviously did not think of them as people, just as animals that were born to do all of her work and take her punishments like ignorant, mindless animals that could understand and do. At least in Chapter 7, his mistress thought of him as another human being but his master destroyed that by telling her that she cannot teach him. Following up with that a few months later, she no longer treated him like a human but like a chattel. It is so terribly sad the change that occurred in his mistress, here was this nice kind-hearted women with a heart that turned to stone. I am so glad that he was fortunate to have a mistress nice enough to begin teaching him. Once he got a taste of it there was no stopping him from trying to get the rest. For example, think of  your favorite food, now imagine that you only get one bite of it and no more. I imagine that is how Douglass feels. I applaud him for finding a way to teach himself to read and how to get help from the white boys around the neighborhood. I am glad that he found something he can read and reread with unabated interest, but this is followed with another sad part. He thinks that learning to read is more of a curse than a blessing because he can understand why he is there and there in the wretched conditions. There is no way for him to tell anyone or to get out of it. For us, it is like knowing this big secret but you can't tell anybody because if you do you will have your tongue cut off. You just have to tell someone though. He finds hope. That is good. I am very glad that he decides to try to find a way to escape and even more so after discovering that he will learn to write. He finally learns. Hooray! That is really neat although it makes me curious as to if the people in school here in the US would teach themselves to read and write or would they be ignorant and stay uneducated slaves.There is one point in Chapter 5 that I believe is arguing for the enslaved people's rights. It is the last paragraph in this chapter. Frederick Douglass is saying that he is a human because he believes in God. It was the word of faith and the spirit of hope that helped him through the foul embrace of the dark hours of slavery. Wouldn't this give him human rights because he believes in God like the rest of the people inhabiting America? He is also arguing for humanity in Chapter 7 in the second paragraph on page 27. They aren't humans because they aren't like the rest of us. They were stolen from the homes in Africa by successful robbers and then put to work in a strange land which reduced them to not being human any more because of the way they are.