It can take very little but very important work to be able to escape slavery and become free. Frederick Douglass’s autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is about a slave learning how to read and discovering that he is a slave, and he should escape to have freedom. He had a new slave owner that was cruel and he was chosen to go to Baltimore. In Baltimore he got beaten very bad by a very large group of slave owners. When he successfully escaped from slavery he spoke up as an abolitionist and made the Underground Railroad. This takes a lot of work to escape from slavery.
Escaping slavery can make you have to do a lot of hard and dangerous work. “It was here that I witnessed the bloody transaction in the first chapter” (Douglass 5). This means that slavery can be very bad and stressful and most masters are very bad and mean and cruel. “I have seen him whip a woman,
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“The more I read the more I abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery” (Douglass 24). This means when I read more books, I discover how slavery is bad for slaves and the slave owners are wicked and evil and all slaves should escape, or they will get treated cruelly by their slave owners. “After a patient waiting, I got one of our city papers, containing an account of the number of petitions from the north, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and of the slave trade between the States. From this time I understood the words abolition and abolitionist”(Douglass 25). This means the more I read, the more I discover meanings for new words, like abolition and abolitionist, and I find out that slavery is bad and makes abolitionists. That is one reason that knowledge can lead to curiosity and make you find out how bad slavery can