“With us, it was a doubtful liberty at most, and almost certain death if we failed. For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage” - (Frederick Douglass). In the Autobiography “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, the maltreatment and trauma involved in slavery are analyzed and challenged through the unique lenses of a past slave who despite spending the first twenty years of his life enslaved managed to escape his destined life of oppression. This autobiography allows for an inspirational and captivating reaction from the audience, through the use of a much more emotional approach on the taboo topic of American slavery. In contrast to the more common eschew theme of stating the general cold facts. Frederick Douglass’s unquiet thirst for knowledge and freedom fueled his undeterred rebellion against human enslavement. Frederick Douglass throughout the beginning of his writing shared examples of him as a developing child witnessing brutish subjections made toward enslaved Africans. His beginning life encounters guides the audience through a very self-aware point of view that may stand out as peculiar when compared to the usual childish bias of worldly observation. …show more content…
The narrator successfully captured the dark essences that make up slavery, while remaining opinionated yet logical when describing his own venomous challenges and triumphs. Frederick Douglass’s experiences revolved around the theme of rebelling and breaking the imprisoned cycle of wrongly encouraged ignorance amongst African slaves. Slavery as recited from this autobiography not only oppressed kidnapped Africans from liberty and life, but also suppressed the magnificent human nature of discovery and spiritual development. This kind of writing serves to keep the ideology that ignorance and submittance are the only real barriers to achieving one’s full potential and