Fredrick Douglass captures our imagination by the fact that he was a slave himself. It was him in the fields, it was him who was beaten, and it was him who wrote about it. Fredrick Douglass also succeeds in catching our interest by telling us the truth about how the slaves were treated. We can trust that what is about to happen on the next page is true no matter what its contents are. Gruesome or pleasant Fredrick Douglass describes slavery with the real life truth that only a person who lived it out could know. B

his failed attempt and succeeds in running away on his second try while knowing of and listing the consequences he might face.

The fact that this book is about the life and happenings of Fredrick Douglass is the definitive reason why this is not a biography of slavery. Fredrick Douglass only depicts his life while in slavery, never straying onto means for it or why it came about. He tells of the work he did as a slave and of his personal feelings during those times. Unlike autobiographies, biographies have both beginnings and conclusions on their subjects. This book starts with a boy in slavery not why slavery was profitable or how they were obtained. Also the end was of a free man and his new wife and family, not the emancipation proclamation or references to the Civil War. This could not be a proper biography of slavery because of its lack of beginning and end.

In conclusion this book helped me better understand the life and thoughts of a slave. It made me more open minded and see slavery in ways I have not before. After reading this book I no longer have a one perspective view on slavery and can better

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