Analyzing Frederick Douglass 'Abolishing Slave'

Abolishing Slavery.
The narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an american slave is an autobiographical narrative. He expresses his perspective of slavery and the horrific events that was brought along with. The narrative was mainly meant for white northerners to grasp the knowledge of what slavery really was and why it should be extinguished. The fundamental reason why Frederick Douglass didn’t accept slavery was because the negative effect that not only left on the slaves, but also their masters. Douglass knows his audience are christians furthermore, he uses religion and many other key moments in reaching his objective. which is ending slavery once and for all.
For instance, Douglass was being separated from his mother as in infant not knowing who she is? Well Douglass uses this aspect from his childhood as a step closer in reaching his goal to ending slavery. For example,in chapter one he mentions how he was separated from from his mother. He says “It is a common custom in the

In page 31 douglass says “Thus slavery the enemy of both the slaves and the slaveholders” Throughout, the whole narrative douglass mentions the many barbarous and inhuman beatings the slaves got. For example, treating slaves as animals, abusing them, being ill but yet no matter what you had to work, and many horrific and racist insults, such as the word “nigger” and labor system. Although, it was not only slaves who were affected but also slaveholders. While slaveholders did these traits, they slowly started developing and became violent, greedy, cruel, inhuman, unsympathetic and cold-blooded. Douglass is trying to make his audience angry when they see how slavery has influenced them in such a bad way. This tells them what horrible people they are. They would contrast how they were before a slaveholder to a slaveholder now. This is why would want his christian readers to stop