I found Douglass’s work to me extremely informative and revealing. It gave us certain details of a slaves’ way of living and made the reader view life through the eyes of an actual slave, Frederick Douglass. Through Douglass’s words, he exposes the moments of realization he had endured throughout his life that changed his way of thought and actions. Such realizations include the moment he realizes he would rather die than be treated as a slave. Another major and crucial insight is when he understands that a key reason to why whites were successful in making humans of black color their slaves was the power of education. The blacks were completely uneducated, giving them no power and no voice. This is extremely important to Douglass, and he realizes he must try to absorb as much knowledge when the opportunities arise. He manages to learn to read and write a bit from newspapers, and other young white kids. I concur with Douglass in that education was a key component in abolishing slavery forever. Frederik Douglass lived a tough life. He never knew or met his father, saw his mother only a couple of times, and lived through beatings, hunger and injustice. He could not stand witnessing his race being exploited, raped, tortured and abused. He was willing to give up his life in the fight for equality. His novel was like a roller coaster. There were some ups and downs, but at the end of the novel we see that he has achieved his goal, freedom.