1) To whom is Douglass addressing his book, and how does the intended audience affect his argument?
Frederick Douglass was a black slave male who learned to read and write while he was in prison. Douglass became literate and a self-instructed slave, due to his vast determination, motivation and effort. As a free-literate black man, he led an abolitionist movement against slavery and he was an essential part of it. Douglas fought against racism and slavery and furthermore he expressed his frustration against those, who did not allow and contributed with slaves ‘education. Douglas’ book has been written to the abolitionists and anyone else sympathetic to his movement. In this article, he provided his own prospective as a slave, his own experience