Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Analysis

In The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, Douglass express his feelings on slavery and exposes everything, the cruelty and horror, of slavery. Being a slave was being a property; slaves had no control of their life, strength, and time. They had very little food, clothes and sleep; their life was being ruled by slaveholders who whatsoever have no mercy and whose cruelty level is unimaginable and inhuman. Slaves works everyday with no reward other than whipping. Douglass, who grew up and experienced all of this, left his readers with everything that his next generations need to know about the history of their ancestors. He writes his narrative in a way that they are rich with so much information, but even with all of this rich information, he still admits that he wishes that there were enough words that could put together all he had to say.
Since childhood, instead of as many children do, playing hide and sake, Douglass grew up watching his fellow blacks get beaten severely. Growing up as a slave Douglass had no knowledge of anything, he didn’t know his birthday nor his dad, he only heard opinions. He talks about how he didn’t have the privilege to know his birthday and also to go to school. Every slave was forbidden to gain any sort of education so for that reason school was not applicable for Douglass and all other slaves. In his narrative, Fredrick Douglass details the oppression he went through during slavery and provides readers with firsthand information of the pain, brutality, and dehumanization of the slaves. He expresses his feelings on slavery and tale for future generations. He achieves this by the help of his mistress teaching him the alphabets, using bread for the poor white boys to teach him to read, and by reading the Colombian Orator and inspiration