fedrick douglas
FREDRICK DOUGLASS Fredrick Douglass was born as a slave in Maryland, yet he died a respected free man. In the “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave” Douglass’s style of writing seems formal. His sentences and paragraphs are longer than most modern writers of today, but they are always carefully balanced and punctuated. His writing is considered to be immediate and moving (pg 127). Douglass was born in 1817 as a slave in Maryland. He lived with a family that was very unlike most slaveholder families.