The novel, the narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass was written by Fredrick Douglass himself to help the audience better understand slavery. What I found amazing is that within the novel Fredrick Douglass broke down the essences of slavery by putting in assorted details on how it effect both blacks and whites, Knowledge was the key for freedom and that the use of ignorance as a tool for power is still being used today.
In the context of the novel, the author is trying to tell the reader that white slave owners used ignorance as a tool of slavery. During the time Douglass wrote his narrative, many people believed that slavery was a natural state of being. In the narrative the author explains the strategies and procedures that whites