Final thoughts on Frederick Douglass

The book, "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass," was an autobiography about Fredrick's life as a slave and his journey to freedom. My favorite part of the book was when he said, “Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to think of plans to gain my freedom,”(Douglass 58). I wondered why improving your conditions make your urge to escape stronger. Why would being treated better by people make you want to get away from them? Then I realized, the more freedom he was able to have to more freedom he wanted. In my opinion, that is a natural human response. He was deprived of human rights for most of his life and the more he found out what life should be like for him the more his was willing to fight for it.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Dover Publications Inc, 1995