According to his autobiographical account, the Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave, “The Columbian Orator”’s eye-opening testimonies about how slave masters derive their power from abusing uneducated people disturbs Douglass into drastically changing his original indifferent stance about Master Hugh. First of all, the dialogue between the well-spoken three-time runaway slave and their master “resulted in the voluntary emancipation of the slave on the part of the master” (Douglass 39). In a self-proclaimed interesting matter, Douglass realizes that the slave not only spoke their mind but the truth about the barbarity with owning one race as property. Ultimately, the slave earned their freedom and power in contrast to
