Slavery - Part Four- Frederick Douglass



In 1845, Frederick Douglass, a free black man published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" where he gave a detailed, well-written account of his life as a slave. The book was hugely popular and influential. It forced many people to put themselves in the shoes of a slave and as a result empathize with them. Frederick Douglas was a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great speaker and writer had once been a slave.

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