In 1855 he offered this timeless explanation of his hatred of slavery and his desire for freedom: “The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past, troubled me, and I longed to have a future, a future with hope in it. To be shut up entirely to the past and present is abhorrent to the human mind; it is to the soul whose life and happiness is unceasing progress what the prison is to the body...
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This short novel of his early life stands out as a deserving classic. Douglass subject matter, a true first hand account of slavery, strikes the reader deeper than fictional account of slavery, oppression, and escapes, Douglass stands out as the first to write his own story. Many black writers presented their subject matter through a ghostwriter, which in my opinion looses the edge of hands-on experience...
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Frederick Douglass Also masters lied to slaves saying learning would do them no good, only harm them. They tried using that reverse psychology to make it seem like what they were doing was right...	2 / 389
frederick When first introduced to Douglass and his story, we find him to be a young slave boy filled with information about those around him. Not only does he speak from the view point of an observer, but he speaks of many typical stereotypes in the slave life...	1 / 227
frederick Douglass Throughout his autobiography Frederick Douglass talks of the many ways a slave and master would be corrupted by the labor system that was so deeply entrenched in the south as a result of the cotton gin, the resulting demand in cotton, and other such labor-intensive crops...	1 / 195
Book Review Most slaves except the fact that they are going to be slaves for the entirety of their life, but Douglass learned to hate all slaveholders because he knew that he and his fellow slaves had just as much potential, if not more, than the white men...	2 / 481