The tone that Frederick Douglass uses on “My Bondage and My Freedom,” Douglass holds the tone of a reflective flashback throughout the excerpt, using and expressing little emotion other than hope and happiness with flashes of semi-repressed anger. Douglass expresses this anger only towards the concept of slavery, simply the thought that one human can be inherently better than another, not anyone in particular.
On “Frederick Douglass,” the tone that Robert Hayden uses is composed at first but has a convincing tone telling people to credit Frederick