In his autobiography, Fredrick Douglass provides many thoughts on slavery and the human spirit, from the slave song and the change of Sophia Auld, to trying to learn to read and write, Douglass shows how slavery changed humanity nature and the prejudice of some slave owners. On the journey to the Big House farm, the slave sang his thoughts, even if he wasn't in tune. “Sometimes they sang the most pathetic feeling in the most ecstatic tone, and the most ecstatic feeling in the most pathetic tone” (p. 8). Although some people sing more when they are happy, but this is not the case during slavery. In his account, Douglass shows how “weeping for joy and singing for joy were equally rare for me while I was in the jaws of slavery” (p. 9). It clearly shows how slavery changed human nature through the songs of the slaves. Human nature is to sing when you are happy, but slavery has corrupted human nature so that slaves can only sing when they are at their saddest. Douglas is amazed by the strange kindness of his new lover, Sophia Auld. Mrs. Auld has never owned a slave before e.g...