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Prompt: What is a human right, and how were Frederick Douglass' human rights violated? Provide examples from the book.

A human right is a right that is a permanent essential to all humans. Frederick Douglass’ human rights were violated. The main human right that was violated was that he was a slave. Slavery goes against human rights. In the book there are so many examples of torture one of them being “Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a trigger, tore off my clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so savagely as to leave the marks visible for a long time after.” This was just one example of torture which is also a violation of human rights. Douglass was also deprived of education and it is a right to receive education. Douglass was actually able to take grasp of a learning opportunity but he wasn’t actually allowed to be receiving the lessons which makes it a violation to human rights because he should have a choice to be able to learn. As you can see Frederick Douglass was deprived of many human rights. The list of human right he had violated is much longer, but those were the main ones.

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