8220;In one sense the two perspectives are perpetually at war; in another they work together, one supporting and lending authority and significance to the other.” The first chapter revealed the relation between the perspectives, a relationship that was continued until the end where they are melded into one. Throughout the chapter and in fact the whole book Douglass took a statement of fact about his life and than expanded it to a statement about the evil of slavery and its affects on the human sprit. The practice was two-fold; it sustained the balance between the public and private focus and helped ground the abstractions of the evils of slavery to one person in the hope of rendering the argument more powerful. Douglass was so engaged in keeping the balance and fighting for an end the slavery that he never allowed his story to become just an adventure story or to ever let the plot govern his story. # White abolitionists wanted factually correct slave memoirs to be written. The narratives were used to give northern whites a comprehensive picture of a slave’s life. “Accompanying the commonly rehearsed themes of mistreatment were emphatic portraits of stable black families, presided over by resourceful men and women who acquired skills, built institutions, and satisfied material needs on their own.” Historians have confirmed the accuracy of the narratives, using them with other sources of data to help reconstruction of the black culture of American slavery.# Douglass knew his part in helping to end slavery in fact he often pointed out that a black person particularly a former slave had the most reason to call for an end to it. He had a right to say what he wished and how he wished to say it because he knew first hand what it was like to belong to someone and to suffer. Everything he said and wrote was to help fight “the cause” in one way or another.?This is an example of the kind of fliers that...
