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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Analysis

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In the slave narrative titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the author Frederick Douglass suggests that slavery is not only negative for slaves, but it is also negative for slaveholders Douglas support his claim by telling the reader about how when a master gets a slave pregnant he sells the children when they were old enough. The authors purpose is to inform the readers about the hardships that slaves faced when they were children of white men and how it affected the way that their masters/ fathers, or the masters white wife would act and treat the slave. This earnest tone is followed throughout the book. Frederick has first hand knowledge of how having “mulatto” children, children with black women, affected the slaveholders
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