Shining a New Light on a Dark Situation
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the first of 3 autobiographies written by Douglass, is perhaps the most informative book written on slavery. Slavery is looked at so generally by people of this time. People have very little knowledge of the truths behind slavery. Many people just think of slavery as a white people owning black people and forcing them to work using physical punishment to enforce their authority. Although this is did occur, slavery was much more complicated than this. There was a lot more complications and issues involved during the time of slavery. Frederick Douglass' autobiography shined a new view of what slavery was all about and all that took place, documenting adultery committed by male slave owners with female slaves and the consequences of that, the education of slaves and the relationships between slaves and slave owners.
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