Timothy D. Wyatt Mrs. Phillips Government - 2 January 21, 2015 An American Slave in Antebellum America In Antebellum America the social, legislative, and political policies regarding slavery permeated everyday life. Frederick Douglass pierces the veil of slavery’s inhumanity and reveals the cruelty and savagery of the slavery he personally endured in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. With over thirty thousand copies read within the first year of being published…
Words 569 - Pages 3