Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. Project Gutenberg, 2006, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm . This autobiographical book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass focuses on exposing the atrocities that enslaved people suffered every day while enlightening our knowledge on the religion practices of the time. This narrative also exposes Douglass’s transformation from ignorance to knowledge, as Douglass understood the crucial
Frederick Douglass, a famous abolitionist and social reformer, uses his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to voice consternations about slavery in the late 1800s. Harriet Martineau, an feminist and abolitionist icon, in her essay “Woman”, comments on the social inequality between men and women in the mid-eighteenth century. According to Douglass’s autobiography, one constant that always caused slaveholders to become more ruthless was their conversion to or practice of faith
THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS,AN AMERICAN SLAVE INTRODUCTION: Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition, and his first autobiography is the one of the most widely read North American slave narratives. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was published in 1845, less than seven years after Douglass escaped from slavery. The book was an instant success, selling 4,500 copies in the first four months