"Setting a Nation Free" Any anti slavery book published in 1845 was considered radical and daring, but for a black man and a fugitive slave, at that, to have done it was near suicide. Luckily, Frederick Douglass, the author of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, was able to flee America by way of Great Britain after the book was released so that the United States could have time to embrace it. It was …showed first 75 words of 1050 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1050 total…lead to unrest and the want for freedom. Learning to read and write was the knowledge Douglass gained which enabled him to escape. He then used those tools to help others gain freedom; not by teaching other slaves to read and write, but by writing his story so that those ignorant to the evil of slavery could become aware and channel their love of their own freedom to desire every man become his own master.