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Better Understanding Slavery By Frederick Douglass

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My opinion on better understanding slavery is to look into the lives of slaves. Historical accounts by free slaves helps us understand the condition of these slaves and the wrong doings and shortcomings to the society, by practicing slavery. An account of slavery, an autobiography, written by Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave who lived in Maryland, but ran away to Pennsylvania, a free state to become a free black man. Due to his education, he was able to publish his autobiography and his life as a slave in Maryland and as an escaped slave. He was communicating his comprehension of wretchedness and disdain from the individuals who needed to bear the agony he once felt; as a previous slave. Douglass was conveying light to the way that these demonstrations
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