Frederick Douglass wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, it publication in 1845. In narrative Douglass share his experience as a slave. He details the struggles of growing up on a plantation, being focused on extreme racism and achieving his freedom. He later became a writer and activist. Douglass describes how he was separated from his family and raised in Talbot county, Maryland, where he experiences his slave owner beating his aunt. In this narrative, he also shows the reader himself experience many beating and acts of torture. His life was a change forever when he was sent to work on a plantation in Baltimore, from where he escapes. He takes the reader from his experience of fleeing to a free state in the north. The whole narrative describes his experience in vivid details his experience of being a slave it also reveals his psychological insight into the slave vs master relationship. The narrative is a powerful document that shows Douglass ability to transform himself from an illiterate, oppressed slave to an educated. I agree with Douglass point of view on education, he realizes that literacy is equated with not only person consciousness but also freedom. From that day he decided to learn much as he can, eventually learning how to write to which was key to his freedom. …show more content…
Douglass also founded “The North Star,” an abolitionist newspaper. Douglass discussed with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and helped influence the Emancipation Proclamation. After President Lincoln’s death, Mrs. Lincoln sent Douglass her late husband’s walking