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Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 and died in 1895. He was also a slave. He thought that slavery was morally wrong and, therefore, should be banned, while Captain Canot was fine with it and, in fact, supported it. Frederick, being a slave helped with the reason he was against it. But, there are many other reasons why he thought it was wrong. One other reason he thought slavery was wrong was that Frederick saw children's mothers and children being slaves while usually the father would be white and the slave owner, this also brought domestic violence. If the mothers or children would not listen. They would be whipped, beaten, and sometimes even killed. They were killed. They were seen as "expendables" as white slave owners could just buy more because most of the slave owners who owned slaves were usually rich and could afford to buy more at a slave auction. Frederick, also based his views on how he was taught and his education. He also knew that inequality and slavery were always hateful and immoral, in the first place. Captain Canot, on the other hand, was born into a white family in 1804 and was always taught owning a slave was not wrong. This, is a reason why he believed it was okay to own slaves (seeing a pattern?). He then joined the military giving him the name "Captain." Which was a mastery of all men, to complement this he owned slaves himself. Captain Canot never experienced what being a slave was and what having no rights at all felt like. So of course, having no experience Captain Canot thought slavery wasn't that bad. However, Captain Canot and his men also saw African Americans as just "cargo" something just to be delivered and kept alive. Not even humans. The idea of African Americans being a lower class than a peasant, or a "sub-human" wasn't made overnight, it was made through hundreds of years of slavery. Although Captain Canot was not in slavery his whole life around 1840 he stopped taking slaves and decided to go into the plantation industry in the same region he was in, he still occasionally participated in slave trafficking but was not often. Both of these historical characters thought very differently, but for all the same reasons, experience, principles, and the place they were born and how they were taught.
