Frederick Douglass Reaction Paper

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Back in Viet Nam, I had opportunities to learn about American slavery as a part of my World History class. I was not sensitive enough to understand the idea of slavery as deeply as the American until I read Frederick Douglass's book. It is an autobiography with a mix of politics and propaganda. He has a particular purpose in writing about his life which is to be ending slavery. Although his language sometimes seems a bit unnatural to me, his style is straightforward. He wants everyone to understand him, so he does not write long or complicated sentences, but informal ones. The title of his book draws my attention with two phrases: “American slave” and “Written by Himself”. By calling himself an “American slave”, he seems to remind everyone

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