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Concentration Camp
In Fredrick Douglass’ story “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas,� he chronicles the horrid conditions of slavery and how it dehumanizes the slaves and corrupts the slaveholders. The struggle of slavery described by Douglas resembles some of the same struggles that Jews faced in concentration camps during World War, dehumanization and severe work and punishment being the most comparable connections. Also, the effects of both slavery and the concentration camps had a dire effect on the slaveholders and guards that drove them to inhumane acts of violence.
The first effect of slavery that Douglas explains is the way in which slavery dehumanizes people, much like that of concentration camps. In concentration camps they strip of you of your name, your identity and replace it with a number and separate you form your family, loosing your ties to people you love and care about. In slavery, the omission of the characteristics that define you, your......

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