A review by s0litude
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man."

  A truly harrowing account of the life of Frederick Douglass. Focused mainly on his time as a slave, Douglass spares no detail in describing the horrors of both his own life, and the lives of countless others. At times an insight into the mindset of both slaves and slaveholders, at others a poetic testimony to the power of education.