Frederick Douglass was an American slave in the South during the time of the abolitionist movement. During his time in slavery, he learned his ABCs from a kindly slave owner, and from there he taught himself to read. With this knowledge, he is able to learn more about the abolitionist movement in the north and ultimately plan his escape from captivity in Baltimore. Several years after his escape, he was able to write and publish his life story in an effort to show abolitionists and those who were hesitant about slavery in the North that the institution was not everything what it is described. During Douglass's time, many slave owners painted a different vision of the South and the goodness and justice of slavery. In his story, Douglass combats this assertion by describing chilling human rights violations that occurred during his own life, in order to show abolitionists that slavery was blatantly contrary to American justice and freedom...