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A Narrative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglas

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In his book, A Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, the author Fredrick Douglas informs us, with firsthand accounts, the true ugliness of American slavery. Douglas illustrates the cruelty the African Americans endured through their birth, their growing to adulthood and of their death. Readers are left to wonder the feelings and thoughts of the African Americans during this horrific time, the time known as slavery. Beginning with the title, A narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, it identifies to the reader that the reading to is be focused primarily on the life of Fredrick Douglas. Upon reading, the reader is introduced to the birth of Mr. Douglas and like many slaves, was born into the world unknowing to the suffrage he would
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