Indeed he dreamed of freedom, just as all slaves did, but there was something about Frederick

Douglass that made him different. He dreamed of an education. It was this education that made

him to be different. It was the knowledge that gave him self awareness that he was a man just as

a white man was. It gave him the will to run away and live on his own. He no longer wanted to

subject himself to the punishment of the overseer. This knowledge brought him the strength to

stand up to those who thought themselves superior to him. It changed his personality and the

notion of his own self. In this paper I will discuss the changing self image, the personality, the

instances that reflect these changes and the point of the autobiography of Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass's notion of self in the novel revolve around the life that he lived. If it

weren't for certain aspects of his life, he wouldn't have thought about himself as he did. Slavery

scarred him just as other slaves. He was treated as property so he felt himself as property. In him

lied no burning desire for something better at an early age. He never fought or prot

how in every way slavery is corrupt as exemplified through the life that he lived and what he

think more maturely and in a more educated fashion. He seethed from the inside and internally

Foner, Philip S. (1955) The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction and After.

mind, and life of a slave. To me though, the point is the entire overlying issue of the story. It is

to read his story and be sympathetic with him and be outraged by slavery at that time. I think in

tells the reader that there is nothing good in slavery - that only when there is no slavery good

and after he escapes the narrative trails off and then ends. In my opinion Frederick wanted people

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