Fredrick_Douglass

Fredrick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass In the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography that was written himself. He wrote to express the many hard trials he experienced. Born as a slave and died as a free man, but he also became a well-known abolitionist leaders. This book was important to him because most of his life he didn’t know to read and write. He symbolizes the experiences slaves went through every day just to survive. Slaves were not happy and they were not allowed to show emotion. But slaves used songs and lyrics to express the way they felt. Singing was the one way slaves could relieve their sadness and fear but slave owners thought it was them rejoicing. Douglass states, “They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone.” (Douglass 29) Slave owners knew slaves were valuable but they felt slaves were nothing but a slave. They weren’t going to give their slaves adequate food or clothing because to them slaves were worthless. Even Douglass experiences the loss of food. When one of his slave masters didn’t give him enough douglass, slave, slaves, slavery, master, because, way, owners, masters, wrong, write, read, felt, control, believed, began, worthless, watkins, thomas, thing, states, sophia, one, nothing, never, looked, left, food, family, faith, believe, being, allowed, slaves, wife