Narrative_In_The_Life_Of_Frederick_Douglass

Narrative In The Life Of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass himself wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. He was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in approximately 1817. He has, "…no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (47). Having himself been kept as a slave until he escaped from Maryland in 1838, he was able to deliver very impassioned speeches about the role of the slave holders and the slaves. Many Northerners tried to discredit his tales, but no one was ever able to disprove his statements. Frederick Douglass does offer a biased review of slavery, as he was born into it, yet even in his bias he is able to detect and detail the differences in the slaveholders cruelty and that to which he was subjected. From being whipped and humiliated daily, "a very severe whipping… for being awkward" (101), to being able to find his own work and save some money, he is able to give the reader a more true picture of slavery. Frederick Douglass has woven many themes into his narrative, all being tied with a common thread of man’s inhumanity towards man. slave, slaves, douglass, even, being, able, slavery, man, work, women, very, right, narrative, life, frederick, become, yet, treated, themes, slaveholders, seen, rev, reader, own, never, maryland, made, holders, himself, having, hard, free, douglass’, common, children