Slavery is an undesirable past institution that has affected the masses of people, and previews itself as a stain in present-day democratic America. This stain is further perplexed by Frederick Douglass’ autobiography Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, which in itself exhibits a demonstration of great prose, and the events described in this narrative further broaden its excellence. Douglass illustrates the dehumanizing nature of this institution by establishing how slave owners were imbrute, and so were slaves by being both a victim and a bystander. However, through his portrayal in a literary merit order, he symbolizes a form of art too immense to be created by nonhuman or animalistic behavior, thus humanizing the author and all African
