The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. The text describes the events of his life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. Douglass details the cruel interaction that occurs between slaves and