FREDRICK DOUGLASS

Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass

Fredrick Douglass was a courageous African-American man. He fought against slavery using his outstanding intelligence, which helped prove his race was equal to the majority race that suppressed them. In 1845, Douglass wrote his Narrative of The Life. It was a heavily influential book against the idea and practice of slavery that remains popular to this day. Although Douglass had changed the names of the characters within his book, all the accounts written in his book are true.

Within the book, Douglass destroys the stereotype put upon his people. Through example he shows the reader that the African-American race ...