The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography about an American slave named Frederick Douglass. He is different than many slaves in this time period. At the young age of 7 he is sent away from the plantation he has lived on his whole life up to this point in history, and is sent to Baltimore to begin to work, it is there that the young Douglass he learned how to read and write with the help of the master’s wife Sophia Auld, which her husband will eventually find out, to his displeasure. This leads to Mrs. Auld being unable to teach Douglass anymore, but he begins to educate himself, something that nobody expected would occur. As he begins to age some more, he attempts to fight for his freedom even to the point of talking back to his master Mr. Auld. This outrages Auld, who decides to send Douglass to a notorious “slave breaker”, named Covey, in an attempt to crush Douglass to the point that he would never talk back to his owners in his life. At the beginning it works, Covey whips Douglass, whose soul is utterly destroyed. Eventually …show more content…
We feel that his view, even of those who have injured him most, may be relied upon.” Harvard University Press expresses their feelings about the content and Douglass, they proclaim, “Still, there were many other powerful voices leading the country toward abolition, and none more prominent than Frederick Douglass.” Both of these reviews praised Douglass for his writing skills, and considered him a reliable