Frederick Douglass utilizes figurative language to help the northerners understand how it is like to be an escaped slave. Douglass at first felt excited when he left his “chains”(S.2) at first until he realized he could not trust anyone as the loneliness overcame him. When Douglass first escaped slavery“[he] felt as one may imagine the unarmed mariner to feel when he is rescued by a friendly man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate” (S.8). Douglass takes advantage of this analogy to compare the relief of first escaping slavery to the relief of getting saved from the pirate to help the northerners imagine what escaping slavery would feel like. Once Douglass realized that he actually could not trust anyone so” he is [at] every moment subjected
