Even though Frederick Douglass is now a free man, his subconscious is now trapped knowing that he can never truly trust anyone. Douglass how has to hide his past in order to prevent his kidnapping; anyone, white or black, has the power and potential to sell a black man, like Douglass, to the Confederate States. Douglass’ diction throughout his autobiography accents just how paranoid and lonely he felt by giving a contrast between his ecstatic and devastated feelings. “On the third day,” Frederick Douglass freed himself from the “chains” and reached the “free State,” also known as New York. The phrase, “on the third day” is a common allusion from the Holy Bible where Jesus comes back from the dead in order to let everyone into Paradise. On
