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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most important live testimonies about the slavery era in America.
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October 22, 2003 Ido Ben-Ze'ev Essay #2: "Interpretive Summary" Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most important live testimonies about the slavery era in America. The book is an autobiography of a slave who was born into slavery and struggled staunchly to find his way to freedom despite of the fact that his masters oppressed him cruelly. Because he was a slave, Frederick Douglass was a victim of the dehumanization that resulted from the white men's enslavement of the "colored" people. By being so cruel and brutal, Douglass' masters were trying to darken his moral and mental vision so that he would lose interest in obtaining freedom and serve them as an efficient mindless tool. But despite Douglass' master's efforts during his "career" as a slave, they didn't manage to destroy his power of reason. Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland, to a slave mother that was...
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