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Honestly I think this book is very humbling. I encourage everyone to read it. FD is a very inspirational person and we can all learn something from his story. It felt kind of fast, though. Things happened very quickly, it didn’t feel like you could really get used to any particular setting. But I think that was reflective of slave life too. So it fits. There were a lot of names so it was hard to remember everyone but I think most readers will fare pretty well. If you want a more detailed autobiography I imagine “My Bondage and My Freedom” is that, from what I deduced looking at its table of contents. There were some parts that were kind of inaccessible to me, hard to understand, but overall, it was thought-provoking and eye-opening. It’s sad to think that while Douglass and countless other slaves saw freedom, a lot of slaves never got to.

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