In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass there are many different themes throughout the autobiography including education, family, friendship, and religion. The most important and the biggest theme is slavery. In his narrative, Frederick writes about his life as a slave, he compels to reader to make a decision if slavery is good or bad, his view is of course that slavery is wrong. People were forced to become slaves, taken from their homes. They were deprived of efficient clothing, food, and education. Ignorance was used to keep a slave from realizing how bad their situations actually are. People thought that black are incapable to act correctly in a civilized society and because of that, slaves were treated like
