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Analysis Of Letter To Thomas Auld By Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass offers two powerful works of abolitionist writing in in letter to Thomas Auld and his address “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”. His letter to Thomas Auld, his former slave master, was the personal made public, as he recounted his struggle and his family’s struggle to ostensibly to Auld but perhaps more importantly to the public at large. He used a similar strategy as Solomon Northup did in 12 Years a Slave, placing particular emphasis on the injustices of slavery within the context of familial relationships. Douglass wrote of his love for his children, saying “Oh! sir, a slaveholder never appears to me so completely an agent of hell, as when I think of and look upon my dear children”(4). He similarly evokes the
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