Narrative of Frederick Douglas
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass and Its Effects on the Abolitionists Frederick Douglass' The Narrative of Frederick Douglass was targeted toward the Northern Abolitionists. Being categorized as both a slave narrative and a novel full of emotional circumstances, Frederick Douglass succeeds in overwhelming the reader with sympathy and compassion for both himself and his fellow "brethren" (64). Frederick Douglass utilizes family relationships in order to enable the reader to experience the very definition of empathy; starting with his birth and childhood, proceeding to the value of the basic family unit, continuing with the irreverence toward the treatment of elders, and concluding by demonstrating that slaves were treated as if they were on the same level as farm animals. Frederick Douglass presents family relationships starting at birth and progressing into childhood so that he may successfully solicit the reader's feelings toward slavery. Douglass never knew the true identity of his father; however, it was "whispered" (2) among the slaves that it was his own master. Douglass shows us how the "slaveholder in (numerous) cases, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father." (2) This situation was
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Approximate Word count = 1185
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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