Preface: .
Some narratives began with a preface and for this book, there is a preface and it begins by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter to Douglass from Wendell Phillips, he starts out his preface by telling us how he and Douglass meet. They met at an abolitionist convention and that the former slave's speech so impressed the audience that Garrison felt he "Never hated slave so intensely as at that moment. " Basically the entire preface I would kind of consider it as a rhetorical analysis, they completed the preface and left us, the readers with an introductions to the chapters we are about to read to the subject "Douglass-as-slave, " also they left us with multiple arguments against slavery: for example arguments on moral, judicial, scientific and religious grounds. On a final note, Garrison makes a powerful call to action for all Christians to resist the slave system; he concludes that those who are truly on the side of God must also be against slavery.
Chapter one:.
In chapter one from the very beginning of his Narrative, I think that Douglass is trying really hard to scare his readers. Douglass vividly detail the physical abuse that were influenced all the slaves and also he presents a frank discussion about sex between white male owners and female slaves. Douglass begins his Narrative by explaining that he was like many others slaves at that time, who didn't know when they were born or who their parent are. Douglass thinks that he was born around the year 1817 and that his father was his white master named Captain Anthony. His mother, her name was Harriet Bailey and she died when Douglass was only seven years old. Douglass knew his mom, even though she wasn't allowed to see him very often. Any children of mixed race back then classified as slaves, and that number got bigger each day, because white masters raped black slaves often. Douglas concludes chapter one by telling us about childhood memories to the first day he saw a slave being beaten.