In the book, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave, Douglass tells the story of living as a slave in Maryland, the hardships he went through and his tough journey to freedom. Regarded as one of the most compelling anti slavery documents produced by a fugitive slave, the narrative is also valued as an affecting argument for human rights. Douglass's story continues to resonate that his life embodies the American dream of overcoming obstacles and reaching one's goals after enduring the terrible horrors of slavery. Fredrick Douglas was a slave who lived in Maryland; his masters were Captain Anthony and Colonel Lloyd. Douglas did not know who his father was, however, he believed that he was his master. He knew his mother, but could only see her a few times at night because it was not allowed on the plantation. He had a hard life on the plantation. During this time, he witnessed the his own Aunt Hester be brutally tortured. In the narrative Douglas wrote, “I was so terrified and horror stricken at the sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not …show more content…
They planned to canoe up the Chesapeake Bay on the Saturday before Easter. Douglass writes them travel passes, signed by their master, for each of them. Douglass works for the next three years at different odd jobs. When he earns enough money to subscribe to the Liberator, an magazine about the abolishment of slavery. In August 1841, Douglass speaks at a antislavery convention and is urged to speak about his experience as a slave. He is nervous about speaking in front of whites, but soon talks with ease. Since that day, Douglass has worked to plead the case against slavery.
When Douglass was asked about what it felt like to be in a free State he did not know what to say and never had the answer to be satisfactory to himself. After though free in New York he said “I felt like I have escaped a den of hungry lions”.(100