In this essay, I will be examining the women as well as Douglass himself in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The women and Douglass in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass have a major lack of control over their material circumstances. This is due to the fact that they are slaves and have nothing of their own to begin with. They have no physical possessions, no access to education and no say in their day to day lives. Douglass specifically falls into a feministic category because as a slave, he has lost all of his manhood. This text’s portrayal of men and women and their material circumstances supports Woolf’s theories. Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own has been repeatedly reviewed, critiqued, and analyzed since its publication in 1929. Without a doubt, during Woolf’s time, there was a strong feminist movement outside of the political field, but the common conception was that feminists were only interested in the vote. In the most general sense, today’s definition of feminism is simply the belief in securing equal rights and opportunities for women. Those women should be allowed equal opportunities to write fiction is the thesis of Woolf’s essay. Though her thesis is confined to fiction and does not extend into any other aspect of society, the idea is feminist by this broader, more recent definition. She makes no pretense of attempting to explain the differences between men and women. She acknowledges that these discrepancies exist, and