Frederick Douglass Authors Intent

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave was published in 1845. It is a powerful novel about the harmful effects of slavery. It explores the daily ins and outs of slaves in America and that of their slaveholders, while telling the story of Fredrick Douglass' life.
Perhaps the most powerful feature about this book is that it was written by Fredrick Douglass himself. It is an autobiography. He, himself had this book published in 1845 and had told his story several times before in front of an audience of white men. He was a slave that was forced to struggle through the better part of his life and he wanted to have his story known.
By publishing this book he was able to convey to America just how terrible slavery was and is. He spoke of it as if it were a disease and was justified in doing so. He did something that many non-fiction books could not he made you feel second hand what it was like to be a black man in America during that time. He even spoke about the way slavery affected the white men and women and how it changed them and could take an innocent woman and make a beast out of her.
His intent was to show how harmful slavery truly is to any culture and how it not only effects the people that are enslaved but the nation as a whole. Everyone knows that slavery was not a good thing but not everyone could portray it or take us to the heart of it like Fredrick Douglass did. He truly accomplished many things in the publishing of such a book. He even withheld certain names so that the few people that had tried to help him would not be shunned.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a book written with great heart and soul. Its intent to show just what America had become due to slavery was accomplished in full. If someone else had recorded his story for him it would not have been as powerful. This book truly shows that slavery was a terrible ghastly being and that writing comes from the heart and not from the mind.