Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Language Analysis

In the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Frederick Douglass, accounts for the hardships Douglass endured being born into enslavement, but by utilizing knowledge of language as a means of freeing his mind from the cage of slavery, ultimately leads to his freedom in, 1838. As a prelude to his altercation with Mr. Covey, Douglass proclaims, “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” Douglass indicates that the implication of dehumanizing factors, like deprivation of learning, have transformed men into ignorant slaves, but through rehumanizing components such as learning to read and write will transfigure the illiterate slave back into a man. The memoir conveys how slaves were